2026.5: We’re on the identical frequency now 📡

Residence Assistant 2026.5! 🎉

What a number of weeks it has been! Earlier this month, we hosted State of the Open Residence 2026 reside in Utrecht, the Netherlands. A giant chunk of that day was devoted to one thing we deeply care about: constructing within the open, and the way we’re going to take that even farther from right here on out. 💙

Constructing within the open isn’t nearly supply code on GitHub. It’s about doing the planning, the decision-making, and the prioritizing out the place everybody can see it, observe alongside, and take part. And “becoming a member of in” doesn’t imply it’s important to write a single line of code and even think about your self technical. Sharing how you utilize Residence Assistant, telling us what frustrates you, what you want existed, voting on concepts, serving to a fellow person on the boards or Discord, translating, writing documentation, or just leaving a considerate touch upon a roadmap merchandise: it all counts, and it all shapes the place this venture goes subsequent. 🤝

An awesome first step in that course additionally went reside this month: our roadmap is now public. You’ll be able to go browse it, see what we’re engaged on, what’s subsequent, and (most significantly) touch upon it, share your ideas, and assist form it. We talked about all of this, and much more, on stage. So in case you weren’t capable of be a part of us reside, please go watch the recording. It’s genuinely price your time, and it’s the perfect invitation I may give you to return construct the Open Residence with us. 🗺️

Now, on to this launch. My private favourite this month is perhaps a bit sudden, contemplating it sits all the way in which on the finish of this submit: the utterly reworked templating documentation. I do know, I do know, “documentation” doesn’t precisely scream headline function. However hear me out: making Residence Assistant extra approachable is certainly one of our largest missions this 12 months, and darn good documentation is an enormous a part of that. We’ve expanded our documentation workforce and are investing closely on this, and the brand new templating docs are the very first style of what’s to return. I’m actually happy with the place that is heading. 📚

That mentioned, I’d be mendacity if I mentioned I wasn’t additionally tremendous stoked about radio frequency (RF) help touchdown this launch. Similar to final month’s infrared (IR) launch, this brings a huge class of gadgets into Residence Assistant natively: blinds, storage doorways, ceiling followers, RF shops, doorbells… you identify it. Positive, there have at all times been intelligent workarounds and customized integrations to bridge a few of these, however having it constructed proper into the platform adjustments the sport utterly. There’s a lot cool stuff happening round this, and we’re solely getting began. 📡

And there’s a lot extra: a brand new Upkeep dashboard on your batteries, serial ports proxied over the community with ESPHome, new tile card options for media gamers, durations for purpose-specific automation triggers and circumstances, redesigned more-info dialogs for vacuums and garden mowers, autocomplete within the code editors, and 12 new integrations! 🚀

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 @piitaya who helped write the discharge notes this launch. Additionally, @RaHehl, @balloob, @Tommatheussen, and @mib1185 for placing effort into enhancing its contents. Due to them, these launch notes are in nice form. ❤️

Radio frequency joins infrared as a first-class citizen

Final launch, we welcomed infrared as a first-class citizen of Residence Assistant, opening the door to all these TVs, air conditioners, and different home equipment nonetheless managed by their little IR distant. This launch continues that story with one other old-school protocol: radio frequency (RF). 📡

Take into consideration all of the RF-controlled gadgets already residing in your house: motorized blinds and curtains, storage door openers, ceiling followers, wi-fi wall switches, RF shops, doorbells, and sure, these vacation string lights. Most of them haven’t had a good way into your good dwelling, as a result of they don’t communicate Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, Z-Wave, or Matter. They communicate RF, and solely RF. There have at all times been workarounds and customized integrations to bridge a few of them, however with this launch, Residence Assistant speaks RF natively.

Meet the Radio frequency platform

The brand new Radio frequency integration follows the very same sample as final launch’s infrared platform. It’s an entity sort that represents an RF transmitter, like an ESPHome-powered gadget with a sub-GHz transmitter hooked up. You don’t set it up instantly. As a substitute, different integrations use it to ship RF instructions in your behalf, and also you merely choose which transmitter they need to use.

Two transmitter integrations help this from day one:

• ESPHome, so any ESPHome gadget with a appropriate sub-GHz transmitter can act as your property’s RF bridge. Most modules cowl all frequent sub-GHz bands (315, 433, 868, and 915 MHz), so a single transmitter can speak to a variety of gadgets. For DIY, we suggest the cheap CC1101 module (round $10), which you wire as much as an ESP32 your self. There’s a step-by-step information on methods to construct one within the ESPHome documentation.
• Broadlink, so any Broadlink RM4 Professional you could already personal will be reused as an RF transmitter for the brand new integrations. The RM4 Professional is the one mannequin within the RM4 line with RF help, and it’s restricted to the 433 MHz band.

On the opposite facet, device-specific integrations use the platform to truly do one thing helpful. Two are transport on this launch:

• Honeywell String Lights, to show your RF remote-controlled Honeywell string lights on and off from Residence Assistant, with all of the automation magic that brings. 🎄
• Novy Cooker Hood, to regulate the sunshine and the extractor fan in your Novy cooker hood. These are sometimes ceiling-mounted, so an RF distant (and now Residence Assistant) is the one sensible method to attain them. 💨

Why this can be a huge deal

This can be a nice match with the values of the Open Residence Basis, and particularly sustainability. 🌱 As a substitute of throwing out a working motorized blind as a result of it’s “dumb”, you possibly can combine it. As a substitute of changing your RF shops with new Wi-Fi ones, you possibly can maintain utilizing them. It’s one other method to lengthen the lifetime of gadgets you already personal, and to scale back digital waste. ♻️

A sneak peek at what’s coming

You might have caught a glimpse of the place that is heading on the State of the Open Residence 2026. Nabu Casa is a industrial accomplice of the Open Residence Basis, operating Residence Assistant Cloud and producing gadgets just like the Residence Assistant Inexperienced and the Residence Assistant Voice Preview Version. They’ve been engaged on a brand new gadget, presently going by the codename Mission Blast, that brings infrared and radio frequency capabilities collectively in a single, polished bundle. The brand new Radio frequency platform on this launch is a part of the inspiration that makes merchandise like that attainable. Keep tuned. 👀

If this tickles your curiosity, watch Carl from Nabu Casa clarify what’s coming on this phase of the State of the Open Residence 2026. 📺

We’re excited to see the place the neighborhood takes this. The Radio frequency platform is designed to develop: extra transmitter integrations, extra gadget integrations, and extra protocols over time.

This work is a part of an Open Residence Basis roadmap alternative to make radio frequency a first-class citizen of Residence Assistant. Mission completed. 🎉

Serial ports over the community with ESPHome

Now we have a little bit of a theme happening. Final launch, infrared turned a first-class citizen of Residence Assistant. This launch, radio frequency joined the social gathering. And now, there’s one other means you possibly can put an ESPHome gadget someplace in your house and let Residence Assistant speak to issues by it: serial ports. 🔌

When you’ve ever arrange a Bluetooth proxy, the thought will really feel acquainted. Loads of good dwelling gear talks over a serial connection, like vitality meters with a P1 port, or that basic Denon receiver with the new Denon RS232 integration transport on this launch. Till now, the gadget producing these serial alerts needed to be bodily plugged into the identical machine operating Residence Assistant, or wired up over an extended, unwieldy cable. Not anymore. ✨

With the brand new serial proxy help in ESPHome, any serial port plugged into (or constructed into) an ESPHome gadget can now be uncovered over your community and utilized by Residence Assistant as if it had been sitting proper subsequent to it. Drop an ESP someplace handy, plug your serial gadget into it, and Residence Assistant takes care of the remainder. 🪄

The place this turns out to be useful

Below the hood

• All of Residence Assistant has been migrated to a contemporary, async-first serial driver referred to as serialx, changing the older pyserial library that Residence Assistant has used for years. It’s designed for the way in which Residence Assistant works as we speak and provides help for brand spanking new connection sorts, together with ESPHome serial proxies, transparently.
• Integrations that want a serial port now get a brand new, polished serial port selector within the UI. It lists native USB serial ports and distant ESPHome serial proxies facet by facet, with pleasant names. The record even updates reside, so a USB gadget you plug in whereas the dropdown is open reveals up immediately.
• Frequent integrations that speak over serial choose up serial proxies at no cost. The brand new Denon RS232 integration makes use of it from day one, and the prevailing Russound RIO integration has been migrated to serialx as effectively, so it will probably now speak to your multi-room audio gear over an ESPHome serial proxy too.

When you’re an integration developer (or keep a customized part) speaking over serial, head over to the migrating from pyserial to serialx developer weblog submit to learn all about methods to benefit from this. 🛠️

A primary step, not the end line

Let’s be upfront about one factor: getting a serial proxy up and operating as we speak is not a one-tap expertise but. To make use of this in your house, you’ll must construct your personal ESPHome gadget with the serial_proxy part configured for the UART your serial gadget is wired to. Which means writing an ESPHome YAML configuration, flashing the firmware, and connecting the {hardware}. It’s very doable, but it surely is on the technical facet. 🤓

We expect that’s okay, as a result of this launch is the foundational milestone that makes every thing else attainable. The plumbing is now in place throughout Residence Assistant, ESPHome, and the integrations that want it. From right here, we (and the broader neighborhood) can construct on high of this with friendlier setup flows, ready-made {hardware}, and pre-built ESPHome configurations. Similar to Bluetooth and infrared proxies earlier than it, the expertise will get extra approachable launch after launch. 🚀

This work is a part of an Open Residence Basis roadmap alternative to make serial proxying a first-class citizen of Residence Assistant. One other roadmap milestone, checked off the record. ✅

Extra out of your built-in dashboards

Over the previous few releases, Residence Assistant has been quietly rising a household of built-in dashboards that you just don’t should construct your self. It began with the Residence dashboard again in 2025.9, and grew with devoted Lights, Local weather, and Safety dashboards in 2025.11. This launch provides a brand new one and upgrades an current one. 🏠

Keep on high of your batteries with the brand new Upkeep dashboard

The dashboard focuses on what might be the most-requested view of all: your batteries. It robotically discovers each battery entityAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or perform in Residence Assistant. Entities are used to observe bodily properties or to regulate different entities. An entity is often a part of a tool or a service. [Learn more] in your house and lays them out grouped by space, with low ones highlighted so you possibly can spot those that want swapping at a look. No extra digging by entity lists or constructing your personal dashboard for it. 🔋

This can be a neighborhood contribution from @Brookke, who constructed it from the bottom up. Large thanks for including such a helpful new dashboard to Residence Assistant! 👏

Exercise go browsing the Safety dashboard

It’s a quiet improve you’ll really feel day-after-day: at a look, you possibly can see if a door was opened, if somebody arrived dwelling, or if the entrance digital camera noticed movement, with out having to dig by the logbook or construct a dashboard for it your self. The sidebar seems robotically on wider screens each time the Logbook integration is enabled (it’s, by default).

Extra for the dashboards you construct your self

Introducing the shortcut card

Dashboards are the entrance door to your good dwelling, and generally probably the most helpful factor you possibly can placed on them isn’t an entity, however a fast method to get someplace. Soar to your vitality dashboard. Open the digital camera view. Launch Help. Open the guide in a brand new tab. The brand new shortcut card makes constructing these one-tap launchers a breeze. ⚡

It seems and seems like a tile card, however as an alternative of representing an entity, it triggers an motion when you choose it. You’ll be able to choose from:

• Navigate to a different dashboard, view, space, or gadget web page.
• Open a URL in a brand new tab, excellent for linking out to your router, NAS, or documentation.
• Launch Help, so your voice assistant is at all times one faucet away.
• Carry out an motion, like turning off all of the lights while you head out the door. 🌙

The cardboard is sensible about defaults: choose a navigation goal and it picks up the title, icon, and colour of that vacation spot robotically. Decide Launch Help and it suggests a microphone icon. You’ll be able to override any of it, after all; set your personal label, description, icon, and colour, and choose between a horizontal or vertical format.

The shortcut additionally comes as a badge, so you possibly can drop the identical one-tap actions into the badge row on the high of any view. Identical choices, identical good defaults, simply in a extra compact kind.

New tile card options for media gamers

The tile card is without doubt one of the most versatile constructing blocks in Residence Assistant dashboards, and this launch expands what it will probably do for media gamers. Two new card options and a extra versatile playback function offer you much more alternative in how your media participant tiles look and behave. 🎶

The primary new function is choose supply: a dropdown proper on the tile that permits you to change the enter or supply in your media participant. HDMI 1, the Spotify enter in your receiver, that one obscure radio station you really like; it’s all one faucet away. The second is choose sound mode, with the identical dropdown expertise for choosing modes like Film, Music, or Night time on receivers and AV gear that help it.

And the prevailing playback card function obtained a long-requested improve: now you can choose precisely which buttons seem and in what order. Combine and match from on/off, play, pause, play/pause, cease, earlier observe, and subsequent observe to construct a distant that matches your media participant completely. No extra turn-on button on a TV that doesn’t want one, no extra lacking the next-track button in your speaker. 🎚️

Objective-specific automation triggers & circumstances

The journey to make automationAutomations in Residence Assistant help you robotically reply to issues that occur in and round your property. [Learn more] constructing really feel pure continues. Ever since Residence Assistant 2025.12 launched purpose-specific triggers and circumstances, each launch has chipped away on the hole between the way you describe your property in your head (“when a light-weight activates”, “if the local weather is heating”) and what you really needed to sort into an automation. Final launch added a complete batch of cross-domain triggers and circumstances. This launch provides one thing the complete neighborhood has been asking for: time. ⏱️

Automations that lastly perceive “for some time”

Studying again the suggestions we’ve acquired within the months this has been in Residence Assistant Labs, one request stood out above all others: durations. Virtually each “when movement is detected” automation within the wild secretly needs it might say “when movement has not been detected for the final 5 minutes”. And virtually each “if a door is open” situation actually desires to be “if a door has been open for no less than 10 minutes”. 🚪

Now they’ll. On the set off facet, a brand new for subject has landed throughout a variety of state-based purpose-specific triggers, from movement and occupancy to doorways, home windows, lights, switches, local weather, covers, and plenty of extra. Decide a set off, set how lengthy the scenario has to carry, and also you’re executed. No extra wrestling with template helpers or YAML for: keys hidden in code views to specific one thing this basic.

On the situation facet, length is now out there throughout the complete household of entity circumstances in Labs. Whether or not you’re checking on movement, a door, a light-weight, a change, a local weather, a media participant, or anything, now you can ask for the state to have held for a given period of time earlier than the situation is taken into account true. Identical story: no template helpers, no YAML detour.

A couple of examples of what this unlocks:

• “When the entrance door has been open for greater than 2 minutes” → close-the-door reminder. 🔔
• “When movement has not been detected within the workplace for quarter-hour” → flip off the lights. 💡
• “If the bed room window has been closed for no less than an hour” → solely then begin the air air purifier. 🌬️
• “When a storage door has been open for greater than half-hour after sundown” → ship a notification. 🌙

It’s a small-looking addition with an outsized impression: an entire class of “virtually attainable” automations simply turned straightforward to place collectively.

A couple of extra triggers and circumstances to play with

When you regulate updates ready to be put in, two new circumstancesSituations are an non-obligatory a part of an automation that may forestall an motion from firing if they aren’t met. [Learn more], is obtainable and is just not out there, let an automation department on whether or not one thing is pending, with out templating the reply your self.

Your media gamers obtained chatty: triggers hearth when one thing begins enjoying, pauses, activates, or turns off, and now additionally when a participant is muted or unmuted, when its quantity adjustments, or when the quantity crosses a threshold you set. Situations observe the identical beat with is muted, is unmuted, and a numeric quantity verify. Excellent gas for “dim the lights when the film begins”, “pause the music when the doorbell rings”, or “solely ship the loud TTSTTS (text-to-speech) permits Residence Assistant to speak to you. [Learn more] announcement if the speaker is under 30%”. 🎬🔇

Your remotes picked up matching is on and is off circumstances, ending what final launch’s triggers began. And your to-do lists can now reply two questions an automation may need: are all objects accomplished, or are there nonetheless incomplete objects on the record? Nice for end-of-day check-ins or these “did I overlook to feed the cat” moments. 🐱

Your timers obtained an entire lifecycle of latest triggersA set off is a set of values or circumstances of a platform which are outlined to trigger an automation to run. [Learn more]: began, paused, restarted, cancelled, and completed. In order that 20-minute “tea is prepared” timer can now really inform your kitchen lights to flash, and your “youngsters display screen time” timer can announce when it’s operating, paused, or up. There’s additionally a brand new time remaining set off that fires when a operating timer reaches a remaining length you choose: assume a mild “5 minutes left” warning earlier than the display screen time timer runs out. ⏲️

And eventually, a brand new doorbell rang set off. Doorbell occasion entities now communicate a shared language, so a single set off lights up no matter which model sits at your entrance door. 🔔

Modifications to current triggers and circumstances

Strive it out!

Objective-specific triggers and circumstances are nonetheless a preview function in Residence Assistant Labs, however with every launch the tough edges get smoother, and we’re closing in on having it function full. When you haven’t given it a spin but, head over to Settings > System > Labs, change it on, and tell us what you assume. Your suggestions is genuinely shaping the place this lands; constructing within the open at work. 💚

Integrations

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

New integrations

• Denon RS232, added by @balloob
  Management your Denon receiver domestically over its RS232 serial port. Join your receiver utilizing a serial cable or a USB-to-serial adapter for push-based state updates, with out relying on the community or the cloud.

• Duco, added by @ronaldvdmeer — launching at 🏆 platinum high quality
  Monitor and management your Duco demand-controlled air flow system domestically from Residence Assistant. Monitor CO₂, humidity, and different sensor information, and modify air flow, throughout your native community.

• EARN-E P1 Meter, added by @Miggets7
  Join your EARN-E vitality monitor to Residence Assistant for real-time insights into your good meter’s vitality and fuel information. The gadget pushes its readings over your native community, so no cloud or polling is concerned.

• Eurotronic Comet Blue, added by @rikroe
  Combine your Eurotronic Comet Blue (and related) Bluetooth radiator thermostats with Residence Assistant. Learn thermostat standing and modify temperatures domestically, and not using a hub or cloud connection. Suitable thermostats embody Sygonix HT100 BT, Xavax Hama, and Lidl Silvercrest RT2000BT.

• Fumis, added by @frenck — launching at 🏆 platinum high quality
  Deliver your Fumis-based pellet range into Residence Assistant by the Fumis on-line service. Monitor your room temperature, set a cushty goal temperature, and switch your range on or off. Pellet stoves, pellet boilers, and hybrid wooden and pellet stoves geared up with a Fumis WiRCU Wi-Fi module are offered underneath many various manufacturers, together with Austroflamm, Eco Spar, HAAS+SOHN, and Heta.

• Honeywell String Lights, added by @balloob
  Management your Honeywell radio frequency (RF) remote-controlled string lights from Residence Assistant. Makes use of the brand new Radio frequency entity platform, so that you’ll want a appropriate sub-GHz RF transmitter (for instance, an ESPHome gadget) to ship instructions.

• Kiosker, added by @Claeysson
  Monitor your Kiosker internet kiosks operating on iPad or iPhone from Residence Assistant. Kiosker turns your iOS gadget into a strong, easy-to-use internet kiosk, excellent for dashboards on the wall.

• Novy Cooker Hood, added by @piitaya
  Management the sunshine and the extractor fan in your Novy cooker hood from Residence Assistant. Novy hoods are sometimes ceiling-mounted, with no buttons inside attain, so an RF distant (and now Residence Assistant) is the one sensible method to management them. Makes use of the brand new Radio frequency entity platform, so that you’ll want a appropriate sub-GHz RF transmitter (for instance, a Broadlink RM4 Professional or an ESPHome gadget) to ship instructions.

• OMIE, added by @luuuis — launching at 🥈 silver high quality
  Deliver Iberian Peninsula day-ahead electrical energy spot costs from OMIE into Residence Assistant. Sensors expose the present and next-hour costs for each Spain and Portugal, excellent for smarter automations round when to run your dishwasher, cost your EV, or warmth your water.

• Radio frequency, added by @balloob
  A brand new entity sort that represents a sub-GHz radio frequency (RF) transmitter, like an ESPHome gadget with a CC1101 module hooked up. You don’t set this integration up instantly; as an alternative, different integrations use it to ship RF instructions to gadgets similar to distant shops, storage doorways, and string lights. The brand new Honeywell String Lights and Novy Cooker Hood integrations are the primary to utilize it. Learn extra about it within the Radio frequency joins infrared as a first-class citizen part above.

• Teleinfo, added by @esciara — launching at 🥈 silver high quality
  Learn electrical energy consumption information from French Linky good meters and older digital meters utilizing the Télé-Info Shopper (TIC) protocol. Join a Teleinfo USB adapter to your meter’s TIC output to observe real-time vitality indexes, obvious energy, instantaneous present, and tariff info, all domestically.

• Victron GX, added by @tomer-w — launching at 🏆 platinum high quality
  Join your Victron Vitality GX gadgets, just like the Cerbo GX, Venus GX, and Coloration Management GX, to Residence Assistant over MQTT. Get real-time monitoring and management of your Victron system, together with inverters, photo voltaic chargers, battery methods, grid meters, and EV chargers.

Noteworthy enhancements to current integrations

It isn’t simply new integrationsIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant together with your gadgets, providers, and extra. [Learn more] which have been added; current ones are additionally being continuously improved. Listed below are a few of the noteworthy adjustments to current integrations:

• MQTT picked up three new platforms this launch: time, datetime, and date entities, supplying you with much more constructing blocks on your MQTT-based gadgets and automations. Thanks, @jbouwh!
• Matter added help for Matter radon sensors, so radon-monitoring gadgets that talk Matter now present up natively in Residence Assistant. Thanks, @dnicoara!
• ESPHome water heater entities now help away mode, matching what bodily and good water heaters in your house supply. Thanks, @tronikos!
• Shelly added tilt and rotation binary sensors for the Shelly Cury, and the Shelly Wall Show now exposes a media participant entity for built-in audio playback. Thanks, @bieniu!
• Sonos obtained two new switches for TV Autoplay and Ungroup on Autoplay, supplying you with fine-grained management over how dwelling theater audio system behave when the TV activates. Thanks, @arsenicks!
• Apple TV now helps keyboard textual content enter providers, so you possibly can ship textual content to your Apple TV proper from Residence Assistant. No extra trying to find letters on the on-screen keyboard. Thanks, @kroehre!
• Music Assistant acquired an enormous batch of participant choices: quantity, textual content, change, and choose entities at the moment are uncovered for every thing Music Assistant gamers make configurable. On high of that, sound mode help has landed too. Thanks, @fmunkes!
• Roborock house owners with a Q10 S5+ now get devoted sensor and choose entities for his or her vacuum, and Q7 vacuums gained cleansing route management. Thanks, @lboue and @Lash-L!
• WLED now helps per-segment freezing, letting you pause results on particular person LED segments. Thanks, @tgechev!
• Broadlink can now act as an infrared emitter on the brand new infrared platform that landed final launch, so your Broadlink RM-series gadgets will be reused as native IR transmitters for different integrations. Thanks, @YuvalWS!
• Residence Join added microwaves to the associated equipment sorts for a number of sensors, increasing protection of supported gadgets. Thanks, @Diegorro98!
• OpenAI Dialog added help for OpenAI’s new GPT-5.5 dialog mannequin and the gpt-image-2 picture era mannequin, which is now the really useful default for picture era. Thanks, @Shulyaka!
• SMLIGHT SLZB gadgets now expose an infrared platform, to allow them to be used as IR transmitters with the brand new infrared entity platform. Thanks, @tl-sl!
• SwitchBot Air Air purifier gadgets gained fan pace proportion management and a button to toggle the built-in mild sensor. Thanks, @zerzhang!
• Tado now makes use of a dynamic replace interval, robotically adjusting how usually it polls primarily based on exercise to present you brisker information when one thing is occurring. Thanks, @erwindouna!
• SolarEdge obtained an entire set of latest battery storage sensors. There are combination sensors for the overall every day cost and discharge vitality throughout your batteries, and per-battery sensors for every day cost and discharge vitality, state of cost, and present energy. All new sensors are disabled by default, so you possibly can allow simply those you want. Thanks, @it-rec!
• HTML5 Push Notifications obtained a serious improve: a brand new occasion platform, a brand new html5.send_message entity motion, and the mixing is now appropriately categorized as a notification service. Thanks, @tr4nt0r!
• Anthropic added help for Anthropic’s new Claude Opus 4.7 mannequin. Thanks, @Shulyaka!
• Immich media supply now exposes your favourite assortment, making it straightforward to tug starred pictures straight into your dashboards. Thanks, @mib1185!
• Transmission gained an occasion entity for torrent occasions, excellent for triggering automations when downloads end. Thanks, @andrew-codechimp!
• Portainer continues its fast growth: new buttons for pruning volumes, killing containers, recreating containers, and full quantity administration. Thanks, @erwindouna!
• LG Netcast obtained a brand new motion to ship distant management instructions, letting you script TV navigation and enter. Thanks, @mithomas!
• Subaru autos that help distant begin now have a devoted begin/cease button entity. Thanks, @masterkoppa!
• London Underground expanded past the tube: it now reviews standing for the Trams and the IFS Cloud Cable Automobile as effectively. Thanks, @prpr19xx!
• UniFi Entry picked up a number of enhancements: a choose entity for short-term door lock guidelines, UA-HUB-Door help, entry/exit course on entry occasions, automated console discovery by way of UniFi Discovery, and a warning when a UniFi Defend API secret’s used throughout setup. Thanks, @imhotep and @RaHehl!
• UniFi Defend is popping into your alarm hub: it positive factors an alarm management panel, UniFi PoE Siren / UniFi SuperLink Siren sirens, and switches for the brand new UniFi SuperLink Relay — a tool that reaches as much as 2 km over LoRa. All of those new options require UniFi Defend 7.1 or later. Due to Ubiquiti for the general public API enhancements, and to @RaHehl for bringing all of it to Residence Assistant!
• WaterFurnace geothermal methods now expose a local weather entity, alongside new vitality statistics so you possibly can observe your system’s vitality use over time. Thanks, @masterkoppa!
• OpenDisplay Flex e-paper gadgets now expose new diagnostic sensors pushed by passive Bluetooth Low Vitality ads: a battery proportion and battery voltage sensor for battery- and solar-powered gadgets, and a chip temperature sensor. Thanks, @g4bri3lDev!
• Satel Integra now helps encrypted connections, holding your alarm panel communications safe over the community. Thanks, @Tommatheussen!

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 very best person expertise.

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

• 6 integrations reached platinum 🏆

• 2 integrations reached gold 🥇

• 3 integrations reached silver 🥈

• 2 integrations reached bronze 🥉

This can be a big achievement for these integrations and their maintainers. The trouble and dedication required to achieve these high quality ranges is important, 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! 👏

Now out there to arrange from the UI

Whereas most integrationsIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant together with your gadgets, providers, and extra. [Learn more] will be arrange instantly from the Residence Assistant person interface, some had 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 by way of the Residence Assistant UI:

Farewell to the next

The next integrationIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant together with your gadgets, providers, and extra. [Learn more] can also be now not out there as of this launch:

• LANnouncer has been eliminated. The companion Android app is now not out there, which made the mixing unattainable to put in or use. It was deprecated in Residence Assistant 2025.10 and is now eliminated. When you had been nonetheless utilizing it, you’ll must search for another notification integration.

Different noteworthy adjustments

• Cell app notifications at the moment are entities. The Cell app integration now exposes a notificationYou need to use notifications to ship messages, photos, and extra, to gadgets. [Learn more] entity for every of your gadgets, on high of the prevailing notify actions. Which means you possibly can group your telephones and tablets collectively utilizing the common group helper proper from the person interface, and ship a single notification to all of them directly. No YAML, no scripting, no scrolling by an inventory of targets. Thanks, @tr4nt0r! 📱
• A search bar on the mixing element web page. Integrations with plenty of gadgets and entries (assume Z-Wave, Zigbee, or your sprawling pile of ESPHome gadgets) now have a search bar on the high, matching throughout entry titles, gadget names, producers, fashions, and areas. 🔍
• Dashboard visibility circumstances can now discuss with the cardboard’s personal entity. State and numeric state visibility circumstances get a brand new Present entity possibility that robotically follows whichever entity the cardboard is certain to. No extra re-typing entity IDs, and your card stays reusable.
• Dashboard visibility circumstances now help attributes. State and numeric state visibility circumstances on playing cards can now verify an entity attribute as an alternative of simply the state, catching up with their automation counterparts.
• Reload your shell instructions with out restarting. A brand new reload motion enables you to re-read your Shell command YAML configuration on the fly. One much less purpose to restart Residence Assistant. Thanks, @potelux!
• Template vacuums realized about rooms. Vacuums you construct with the Template integration can now expose their segments (rooms) and a clean_segment motion, plugging straight into the brand new Clear by space view. 🧹 Thanks, @gustavakerstrom!
• Extra unit love for sensors. Frequency sensors now help millihertz (mHz) by gigahertz (GHz) with automated conversion between them, and electrical present sensors gained microamperes (µA). Thanks, @32u-nd, @Lamarqe, and @Phunkafizer!

A contemporary more-info dialog for vacuums and garden mowers

The most important useful addition is a model new Clear by space view. Many trendy robotic vacuums allow you to ask them to scrub a particular room, however till now, there was no built-in means to try this from the dialog. Now you can map your Residence Assistant areasAn space in Residence Assistant is a logical grouping of gadgets and entities that should match areas (or rooms) within the bodily world: your property. For instance, the front room space teams gadgets and entities in your front room. [Learn more] to the rooms your vacuum is aware of about, and begin a cleansing job for a number of areas proper from the dialog. When you haven’t arrange a mapping but, the dialog walks you thru it with a pleasant empty state.

Garden mowers obtained the identical love. The redesigned garden mower dialog brings the identical recent illustration with state-driven animations (mowing, returning, docked, error), the identical battery-in-the-header format, and the identical unified motion button row. Whether or not your robotic is busy on the carpet or busy on the garden, the expertise now feels the identical.

This work delivers on two Open Residence Basis roadmap alternatives: refined extra information display screen for vacuum cleaners and refining the extra information display screen for garden mowers. Two roadmap objects, one redesign. ✅

New styling for toggles

The templating documentation you’ve at all times needed

First, crucial factor to say up entrance: you don’t want to jot down code or contact a single template to make use of Residence Assistant. Every thing from organising your gadgets, to constructing automations and crafting lovely dashboards, will be executed solely by the person interface, and it will get higher each launch. If the interface does what you want, you’re executed. 💚

That mentioned, templating is one of the vital highly effective corners of Residence Assistant for the individuals who do need to go a step additional: dynamic notifications that learn the precise temperature, automations that resolve primarily based on a calculation throughout a number of entities, template entities whose worth is computed from different entities. And it has lengthy been one of the vital intimidating corners too. So we shipped a top-to-bottom rework of the templating documentation, with one aim: when you’ve got ever felt that templates had been “not for you”, we need to change that. 📚✨

When you resolve to study templating, we at the moment are assured now we have every thing in place to take you all the way in which:

• 14 model new studying pages stroll you thru templating step-by-step, from what’s a template? and the place to make use of templates, by syntax, loops and circumstances, working with states, sorts and conversion, dates and instances, frequent patterns, and debugging, all the way in which to writing your personal customized templates and macros.
• Two full tutorials construct one thing actual you should utilize: a every day low-battery notification, and an common dwelling temperature sensor you possibly can drop straight onto your dashboard.
• Each one of many 200+ “template features”A template perform known as by identify with parentheses, like states(“sensor.temperature”) or now(). It takes enter values as arguments and returns a end result. [Learn more], “filters”A template filter transforms a worth utilizing the pipe (|) operator. It takes the worth on the left and returns a modified end result. For instance, states(“sensor.temperature”) | float converts the state to a quantity. [Learn more], and “checks”A template take a look at checks a situation utilizing the “is” key phrase and returns true or false. For instance, worth is quantity checks if a worth is a quantity. [Learn more] has its personal web page, with a plain-language intro, parameters, examples that present the precise output they produce, frequent gotchas, and hyperlinks to associated features. All searchable by a single template features reference that lists all of them.
• A devoted error messages web page lists frequent template errors verbatim, so when one thing breaks late at night time you possibly can paste the error right into a search engine and land someplace that truly helps.

There’s a quality-of-life improve throughout the complete web site too: templates in code blocks at the moment are interactive. Hover over a perform identify to see its description, choose it to leap to the reference web page, hover over a parameter for a fast reminder of what it does. Examples render with the enter on high and the precise output proper under, so that you by no means should guess what a template will produce.

Skip it, skim it, or grasp it. Both means, we’ve obtained your again. And that is only the start: we’ve expanded our documentation workforce and are investing closely in making all of our documentation extra approachable. So anticipate extra reworks, extra tutorials, and extra friendly-but-thorough guides in releases to return. 💪

Smarter code editors with autocomplete

The rework didn’t cease on the documentation. Whereas constructing it, it turned painfully clear that even with nice docs, writing a template nonetheless meant flipping forwards and backwards between tabs. So the code editors you discover all through Residence Assistant, those you utilize to jot down a template or fine-tune an automation, obtained a severe improve this launch too. They now supply wealthy, context-aware autocomplete for each YAML and Jinja2 templates. ✨

Begin typing inside a {{ ... }} or {% ... %} block, and the editor now suggests Residence Assistant’s template features, filters, checks, and globals. Every suggestion comes with a brief signature, an outline, and tab-stops for the arguments, so you possibly can fly by writing a template with out holding the template documentation open in one other tab.

It will get even higher contained in the string arguments of these features. The editor is aware of what sort of ID a perform expects and provides matching recommendations:

• Entity IDs for features like states(), is_state(), and state_attr(), together with the states["..."] shorthand.
• Machine IDs for device_entities(), device_name(), and device_attr(), displaying the gadget’s pleasant identify with the uncooked ID because the inserted worth.
• Space IDs for area_entities(), area_devices(), and area_name().
• Ground IDs for floor_areas(), floor_entities(), and floor_name().
• Label IDs for label_areas(), label_devices(), and label_entities().

No extra copy-pasting entity IDs from the developer instruments, and no extra typos sneaking into your templates. Much less friction, fewer errors. 🎯

And it’s not simply autocomplete. Hover over something in your template and the editor has one thing helpful to say. Capabilities, filters, and checks get a small tooltip with their signature, what they do, and a direct hyperlink to the complete documentation web page. Entity IDs and attributes present their present worth proper the place you’re typing, so that you immediately see whether or not your template is studying what you assume it’s. 🔍

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Backward-incompatible adjustments

In case you are a customized integration developer and need to find out about adjustments and new options out there on your integration: You should definitely observe our developer weblog. The next adjustments are probably the most notable for this launch:

All adjustments

After all, there’s much more on this launch. Yow will discover an inventory of all adjustments made right here: Full changelog for Residence Assistant Core 2026.5.