Residence Assistant 2026.2! 💝
February is the month of affection, and this launch is right here to share it!
The brand new Residence Dashboard is now the official default for all new installations. In the event you’ve been utilizing Residence Assistant for some time and by no means custom-made your default view, you’ll get a suggestion to change; give it a strive!
I additionally want your assist! The Open Residence Basis system database is being constructed as a community-powered useful resource to assist everybody make knowledgeable choices about good house units. Head to Residence Assistant Labs to decide in and contribute your anonymized system information. 📈
Add-ons are actually referred to as Apps! After a whole lot of group dialogue, it was time to make use of terminology that everybody understands. Your TV has apps, your telephone has apps, and now Residence Assistant has apps too.
My private favourite this launch? The utterly redesigned Fast search! In the event you’re like me and navigate Residence Assistant utilizing your keyboard, you’re going to like this one. Press ⌘ + Ok (or Ctrl + Ok on Home windows/Linux) and you’ve got on the spot entry to the whole lot. 🤩
Benefit from the launch!
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An enormous thanks to all of the contributors who made this launch attainable! And a particular shout-out to @laupalombi
A brand new solution to view your house
The Residence Dashboard is now Overview because it turns into the official default commonplace, changing the outdated “Overview” for all new situations. In the event you’re a long-time person who by no means custom-made your default view, we’ll counsel the swap to you; in any other case, yow will discover it in Settings > Dashboards to strive it out everytime you’re prepared.
Favored the outdated Overview as a solution to construct your customized dashboards? You may nonetheless do it. Go to Settings > Dashboards, choose Create, and choose the Overview (legacy) template.
Found units at a look
Take a look at the brand new card within the For You part! It immediately shows any new units your Residence Assistant has found, permitting you so as to add them on the spot or bounce straight to system administration with out digging by means of menus.
Space assignments made simple
Within the final launch, we added a devoted Units space inside the Residence Dashboard to catch the whole lot at present unassigned. Now this part gives fast prompts that will help you categorize your units into the precise rooms, holding your setup organized with minimal effort.
Sooner space edits
Must swap the realm temperature sensor? Space pages now characteristic a shortcut within the Edit button. This allows you to bounce straight to the realm’s configuration to replace main sensors like humidity or temperature in seconds.
We’ve additionally tidied up the interface by eradicating awkward empty areas and fixing points with some again arrows. Navigating by means of your sub-menus ought to now really feel as clean and predictable as you’d count on.
UX and visible upgrades
Fashionable look within the default theme: We’ve retired the outdated blue prime bar in favor of a clear, constant theme that matches our Settings web page. This distraction-free design lets your playing cards and information take middle stage.
Customized themes per person: Themes have moved! Now you can discover and toggle your favourite seems straight inside your Consumer profile, making it simpler to arrange a theme that works for you in any system you might be logged in.
Machine database: We’d like your assist!
Discovering dependable details about good house units before you purchase them could be difficult. That’s why we’re constructing the Open Residence Basis system database: a community-powered useful resource that helps you make knowledgeable choices based mostly on real-world information.
We’ve been working with early contributors to put the groundwork, and the outcomes are already spectacular
Assist us out and share your units
Since we’re nonetheless within the early phases, the system database lives in Residence Assistant Labs, the place you possibly can decide in to share anonymized details about the units in your house.
Now we have additionally added a brand new part referred to as Machine analytics to Residence Assistant Analytics, which reveals up while you allow it in Residence Assistant Labs. In the event you decide in, you might be, after all, capable of decide out at any time.
Privateness is our basis. We acquire zero private information, interval. Solely aggregated, anonymized system info is shared if somebody chooses to decide in, offering useful insights whereas holding your privateness intact. You may preview what’s being despatched utilizing the Preview system analytics choice out there within the top-right nook on the Analytics web page. Learn our Knowledge Use Assertion
See the info in motion
We’ve launched an preliminary public dashboard
Be part of us in constructing one thing significant
Head to Settings > System > Labs to allow system analytics and begin contributing your real-world anonymized system information to assist others make higher decisions.
Learn our weblog publish for extra particulars and be part of the dialog in our Discord mission channel
Add-ons are actually referred to as Apps
Beginning with this launch, add-ons are actually referred to as apps! 🎉
You is perhaps questioning: why change the identify? The reply comes down to creating Residence Assistant extra approachable for everybody, particularly newcomers.
While you first open Residence Assistant, you see two sections that sound very related: “Add-ons” and “Integrations.” Each names indicate one thing you add to increase Residence Assistant, however they serve essentially totally different functions. For these of us who’ve been within the ecosystem for some time, this distinction is second nature. However we hold seeing new customers getting confused, trying to put in add-ons once they want integrations, or vice versa.
That is the place the rename helps: use terminology that individuals already perceive. Most individuals know what an “app” is. You open your telephone’s app retailer, you choose an app, you put in it. Your TV has an app retailer. Your NAS has apps. Heck, even some fridges have apps lately. It’s an idea everybody understands. The identical psychological mannequin now applies to Residence Assistant:
- Apps are standalone functions that run alongside Residence Assistant.
- Integrations are connections that join Residence Assistant to your units and providers.
Apps are separate software program managed by your Residence Assistant Working System, operating subsequent to Residence Assistant itself. They are often issues like code editors, media servers, MQTT brokers, or database instruments. Some apps even pair with integrations: for instance, the Mosquitto MQTT dealer app gives the service, whereas the MQTT integration connects Residence Assistant to it.
Present documentation, group posts, and tutorials will proceed to reference “add-ons” for a while. Search engines like google and yahoo and AI assistants may even want time to catch up. We’ve put redirects in place to make sure that trying to find “add-ons” will nonetheless get you the place you might want to go.
Thanks to everybody who participated within the group dialogue and structure proposal
A quicker, snappier Apps panel
In addition to the rename, we did a significant refactoring below the hood of the Apps panel (previously often known as the Add-ons panel) on this launch. Beforehand, this panel was served by a separate course of (the Supervisor), however it has now been absolutely built-in into the Residence Assistant frontend.
You shouldn’t discover a lot of a distinction visually, however the panel is now a lot quicker and snappier to make use of. Extra importantly, this variation makes future improvement on Apps considerably simpler, paving the way in which for extra enhancements down the street.
Objective-specific triggers and situations progress
In Residence Assistant 2025.12, we launched purpose-specific triggers and situations. As an alternative of pondering in technical state modifications, you possibly can merely choose issues like “When a lightweight activates” or “If the local weather is heating” when constructing your automations. In Residence Assistant 2026.1, we added extra triggers and laid the groundwork for situations.
This characteristic remains to be being refined in Residence Assistant Labs, however we proceed to broaden it with each launch. This launch brings a mixture of new triggers and, for the primary time, a complete set of purpose-specific situations!
New triggers
The next new triggers have been added on this launch:
- Calendar triggers fireplace when a calendar occasion begins or ends.
- Individual triggers now cowl when an individual arrives house or leaves house.
- Vacuum triggers fireplace when a vacuum cleaner returns to its dock.
New situations
Objective-specific situations are increasing! Within the earlier launch, we launched the primary purpose-specific situation for lights. This launch provides a complete set of latest situations throughout many extra entity sorts.
Identical to triggers, situations now can help you specific your intent in a extra pure manner. As an alternative of checking if the state of an entity equals a particular worth, now you can merely ask “If the local weather is heating” or “If the lock is locked”.
The next purpose-specific situations are actually out there:
- Alarm management panel situations examine if the alarm is armed (house, away, night time, or trip), disarmed, or triggered.
- Help satellite tv for pc situations examine in case your voice assistant satellites are idle, listening, processing, or responding.
- Local weather situations examine if the local weather system is on, off, heating, cooling, or drying.
- Machine tracker situations examine if a tool is house or not house.
- Fan situations examine if a fan is on or off.
- Humidifier situations examine if a humidifier is on, off, humidifying, or drying.
- Garden mower situations examine in case your garden mower is mowing, docked, paused, returning, or encountering an error.
- Lock situations examine if a lock is locked, unlocked, open, or jammed.
- Media participant situations examine if a media participant is on, off, taking part in, paused, or not taking part in.
- Individual situations examine if an individual is house or not house.
- Siren situations examine if a siren is on or off.
- Swap situations examine if a swap is on or off.
- Vacuum situations examine if a vacuum is cleansing, docked, paused, returning, or encountering an error.
Head over to Settings > System > Labs to allow purpose-specific triggers and situations and provides them a strive!
A model new card: The distribution card
Meet the distribution card, a model new dashboard card that visualizes how values are distributed throughout a number of entities. It shows your information as a proportional horizontal bar chart with an interactive legend, good for seeing at a look the place your energy, storage, or every other measurable amount goes.
The cardboard is absolutely interactive: choose legend objects to cover or present entities (the odds recalculate dynamically), and choose bar segments to open the more-info dialog for that entity. When you have got many entities, the legend reveals the primary objects with a Extra button to broaden the remainder.
The distribution card is wise about what you possibly can mix. It validates that every one entities share the identical area and system class, so that you gained’t unintentionally combine energy sensors with battery sensors. It even handles associated items gracefully: mixing watts and kilowatts works simply positive.
Some concepts for the way you may use it:
- Energy monitoring: See which circuits or home equipment are consuming essentially the most electrical energy proper now.
- Storage utilization: Visualize how storage is distributed throughout drives or folders.
- Any proportional information: Evaluate any group of entities with the identical unit.
Due to @jlpouffier
Fast search: The quickest solution to something
We proceed to make it simpler to entry and discover issues in Residence Assistant. The fast bar has been utterly redesigned and is now merely referred to as Fast search. Consider it because the command middle to your whole Residence Assistant: navigate anyplace, run instructions, discover entities, units, or areas, all from a single, unified search.
Open Fast search from anyplace by urgent ⌘ + Ok on macOS or Ctrl + Ok on Home windows and Linux. The brand new design options class filters on the prime: Navigate, Instructions, Entities, Units, and Areas. Choose a filter to immediately slender your outcomes, or simply begin typing to look throughout the whole lot.
Full keyboard navigation makes Fast search an influence person’s pal. Use the arrow keys to maneuver by means of outcomes, Enter to pick out, and Esc to shut. On cellular, you possibly can assign Fast search to a gesture for one-tap entry.
Your favourite shortcuts nonetheless work
In the event you’ve been utilizing the single-key shortcuts from the outdated fast bar, they nonetheless work! The distinction is that they now open Fast search with the corresponding filter already chosen:
- e opens Fast search with the Entities filter
- d opens Fast search with the Units filter
- c opens Fast search with the Instructions filter
- a nonetheless opens Help straight
- m nonetheless creates a My hyperlink for the present web page (unrelated however nonetheless helpful point out! 😉)
This implies your muscle reminiscence is preserved whilst you get entry to all the brand new capabilities.
Integrations
Due to our group for holding tempo with the brand new integrationsIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant along with your units, providers, and extra. [Learn more] and enhancements to current ones! You’re all superior 🥰
New integrations
We welcome the next new integrations on this launch:
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Cloudflare R2, added by @corrreia
Again up your Residence Assistant to Cloudflare R2. R2 provides beneficiant free tier storage with no egress charges, making it an inexpensive choice for holding your backups secure within the cloud. -
Inexperienced Planet Power, added by @petschni
Get real-time dynamic electrical energy pricing information from German renewable power supplier Inexperienced Planet Power. Monitor hourly costs and optimize your power consumption by shifting it to cheaper hours. -
HDFury, added by @glenndehaan
Management and monitor your HDFuryHDMI video processing units, just like the VRROOM and Diva. Handle HDMI port choice, operation modes, audio muting, and monitor enter/output sign standing. -
NRGkick, added by @andijakl
Monitor your NRGkickGen2 cellular EV charger regionally. Observe charging standing, power consumption, energy move throughout all phases, and system temperatures with out requiring a cloud connection. -
Prana, added by @prana-dev-official
Combine your Pranawarmth restoration air flow methods. Prana HRV items present balanced mechanical air flow with energy-efficient warmth alternate, and now you can management and monitor them straight from Residence Assistant. -
uHoo, added by @getuhoo
and @joshsmonta
Combine your uHooindoor air high quality screens to trace temperature, humidity, CO2, PM2.5, and different air high quality metrics. Additionally consists of proprietary well being indices for virus and mould danger.
Noteworthy enhancements to current integrations
It’s not simply new integrationsIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant along with your units, providers, and extra. [Learn more] which have been added; current ones are additionally being continually improved. Listed here are a number of the noteworthy modifications to current integrations:
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ESPHome integration now helps water heater units! Thanks, @dhoeben
, for including this! -
Music Assistant integration now helps pre-announce URLs, because of @arturpragacz
. Use your customized announcement sounds earlier than your text-to-speech message performs! -
@fr33mang
made it attainable to play your “Favored Songs” assortment straight within the Spotify integration. No extra trying to find that particular playlist. 😁 - The Sonos integration now reveals your podcast favorites within the media browser, because of @divers33
. Might we suggest the Residence Assistant Podcast ? 🎤 -
@starkillerOG
added a brand new pet chime choice to the Reolink integration. Now you possibly can set off a particular chime when your furry mates are on the door! 🐶 - The SmartThings integration now helps audio notifications, because of @vmonkey
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@Lash-L
improved the Roborock integration by including sensors for the dock water field standing. Good! - The Tibber integration acquired a number of enhancements from @Danielhiversen
: new binary sensors for EV charger standing, further temperature and grid sensors, and extra EV settings to fine-tune your charging expertise. ⚡️ -
@LG-ThinQ-Integration
added assist for controlling humidifiers and dehumidifiers within the LG ThinQ integration. Thanks! - Due to @ptarjan
, the Hikvision integration now has digicam assist! You may view snapshots and streams out of your Hikvision cameras and NVRs straight in Residence Assistant. -
@cdnninja
added PM1 and PM10 air high quality sensors to the VeSync integration. Good! - The Bang & Olufsen integration acquired battery assist from @mj23000
. Now you can monitor battery ranges and charging standing to your moveable Beosound audio system and Beoremote One remotes. -
@erwindouna
enhanced the Portainer integration with a brand new prune photographs button and a state sensor. Superior! - Due to @klaasnicolaas
, the Powerfox integration now helps gasoline meters alongside electrical energy meters. -
@terop
added an Indoor Air High quality Rating (IAQS) sensor to the Ruuvi integration. Nice! -
@pandanz
added an ambient temperature sensor to the ToGrill integration. Keep watch over the temperature round your grill 🍗, not simply inside it! -
@tr4nt0r
added assist for sequence IDs to the ntfy integration, permitting notifications to be up to date, and added two new actions to dismiss and delete notifications.
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 of the range, maintainable, and supply the absolute best person expertise.
This launch, we have a good time a number of integrationsIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant along with your units, providers, and extra. [Learn more] which have improved their high quality scale:
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3 integrations reached platinum 🏆
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4 integrations reached silver 🥈
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1 integration reached bronze 🥉
This can be a big achievement for these integrations and their maintainers. The hassle and dedication required to succeed in these high quality ranges is critical, because it includes in depth testing, documentation, error dealing with, and sometimes full rewrites of components of the combination.
A giant thanks to all of the contributors concerned! 👏
Now out there to arrange from the UI
Whereas most integrationsIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant along with your units, providers, and extra. [Learn more] could be arrange straight from the Residence Assistant person interface, some have been solely out there utilizing YAML configuration. We hold transferring extra integrations to the UI, making them extra accessible for everybody to arrange and use.
The next integrations are actually out there through the Residence Assistant UI:
Different noteworthy modifications
There are a lot of extra enhancements on this launch; listed here are a number of the different noteworthy modifications:
- The Developer instruments have been moved to the Settings space. This transformation retains all administrative and system instruments in a single central location, making the interface cleaner and extra constant. We perceive this may take some getting used to, and we hear you! We’re actively exploring including full sidebar menu customization capabilities sooner or later, supplying you with the pliability to prepare your navigation precisely the way in which you need it.
- Dashboards now assist calendar colours! Choose a colour for every calendar, and it’ll present up in your calendar playing cards. The Google Calendar integration already helps this characteristic, because of @Misiu
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@karwosts
added reside inline template previews to the template editor. As you kind, you possibly can immediately see the results of your template with no need to manually refresh. - The sidebar now includes a refined scroll fade impact and retains Settings all the time seen on the backside, so that you by no means must scroll to seek out it. Thanks, @ildar170975
! -
@MindFreeze
added faucet motion and picture faucet motion choices to the realm card, supplying you with extra management over what occurs while you work together along with your areas. - The entity card now helps actions, because of @ildar170975
. Configure faucet, maintain, or double-tap actions to set off something you need straight from the cardboard. -
@Thomas55555
added components per billion (ppb) as a sound unit of measurement for sulfur dioxide sensors and quantity entities. - The Power dashboard now helps energy sensors in different codecs with out the necessity for a template sensor because of @MindFreeze
. Now you can use a single sensor with an inverted polarity for grid or battery. You can even configure two separte constructive sensors for cost and discharge (or import/export).
Add buttons to your heading card
The heading card now helps button badges, supplying you with a brand new manner so as to add fast actions proper alongside your part headings. Show an icon, textual content, or each, choose a customized colour, and configure faucet, maintain, or double-tap actions to set off something you need.
You can even set visibility situations to indicate or disguise buttons based mostly on entity states. Mixed with the present entity badges, this makes the heading card a flexible anchor to your dashboard sections, whether or not you wish to show standing info, present fast controls, or each.
Due to @piitaya
Choose particular entities in your space card
The world card now lets you choose particular person entities as management buttons, not simply whole sorts of entities like all lights or all switches within the space. Beforehand, including a lightweight management meant exhibiting all lights within the space. Now you possibly can choose precisely which entities seem.
Nice job, @MindFreeze
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Backward-incompatible modifications
We do our greatest to keep away from making modifications to current performance that may unexpectedly impression your Residence Assistant set up. Sadly, generally it’s inevitable.
We all the time ensure that to doc these modifications to make the transition as simple as attainable for you. This launch has the next backward-incompatible modifications:
Group
The conduct of sensor teams has modified:
- A sensor group is now unavailable if all group members are both unavailable or lacking (that means they don’t seem to be within the state machine).
- When the group shouldn’t be thought of unavailable and the configuration variable
ignore_non_numericis ready toFalse(the default), the group state is calculated in response to the configured kind provided that all group members are within the state machine and have a numeric state. If not, the group state will probably be unknown.
Sentry
Self-hosted Sentry customers solely: This improve requires Sentry server model 20.6.0 or later (launched June 2020) because of the SDK’s use of the /envelope API endpoint. Customers operating older self-hosted Sentry situations should improve their server earlier than updating Residence Assistant.
Residence Assistant customers utilizing sentry.io are usually not affected.
Tractive
The next sensors have been eliminated as a result of they’re not supported by the Tractive API:
exerciseenergy burnedsleep
In the event you use these entities in your automations or scripts, you should replace them.
Tuya
Duplicate HVACMode have been transformed to presets. You might want to regulate service calls from set_hvac_mode to set_preset_mode in your automations or scripts.
(@epenet
VeSync
The advanced_sleep preset mode is now changed by sleep. When you have been utilizing advanced_sleep, in your automations or scripts, you should replace them to make use of sleep as a substitute.
In case you are a customized integration developer and wish to study modifications and new options out there to your integration: You’ll want to observe our developer weblog. The next modifications are essentially the most notable for this launch:
All modifications
After all, there’s much more on this launch. You’ll find an inventory of all modifications made right here: Full changelog for Residence Assistant Core 2026.2.
