There’s extra to sit up for subsequent week: the ESPHome Starter Equipment is launching, and also you’re invited to the official launch celebration! 🚀 Be part of the ESPHome crew and their companions at Apollo Automation on the ESPHome YouTube channel on August 12 at 21:00 CEST. Acquainted faces are dropping by to rejoice lift-off, too: Reed from Good Dwelling Solver, Simon from Simon Says Dwelling Assistant, and Gavin from HomeTech.fm.
Dwelling Assistant 2026.8! 🎉
Hello, I’m Ashley, the Technical Program Supervisor on the Open Dwelling Basis. With Frenck taking a well-deserved break, Bram and I are teaming as much as deal with issues this time round.
We now have been engaged on lots over the previous few weeks, and I’m excited to share a few of what we now have performed for this launch!
If there’s one thread tying this launch collectively, it’s a route we care about: making Dwelling Assistant one thing you don’t must be technical to make use of. This launch is one other step alongside that path.
Benefit from the launch!
– Ashley
An enormous thanks to all of the contributors who made this launch doable! And a particular shout-out to @frenck and @bramkragten who helped write the discharge notes this launch. Additionally, @piitaya, @RaHehl, and @farmio for placing effort into tweaking its contents. Due to them, these launch notes are in nice form. ❤️
Making Dwelling Assistant extra approachable
One of many instructions we care about most for Dwelling Assistant is making it easier to select up and use, with out compromising on functionality. It’s one thing we now have been working towards for a very long time, and it runs via our roadmap and targets for this yr. We can’t do it in a single day although, so we preserve listening to your suggestions to verify we’re fixing the issues that truly get in your means. If there’s something you wish to see, we might love so that you can weigh in. Each remark helps form what comes subsequent.
This launch brings collectively a few of that work. It might by no means be really completed, and that’s high quality, however it’s one thing we maintain shut: the extra individuals who can use Dwelling Assistant, no matter their technical means, the higher.
The identical Dwelling Assistant, minus the magic quantity
Ever questioned why the deal with on your own residence has a random quantity caught on the top? So did we. For years, reaching Dwelling Assistant meant remembering so as to add :8123 to the deal with, a little bit piece of technical trivia that everybody merely needed to study. This launch begins to place that proper.
New installations of “Dwelling Assistant OS”Dwelling Assistant OS, the Dwelling Assistant Working System, is an embedded, minimalistic, working system designed to run the Dwelling Assistant ecosystem on single board computer systems (just like the Raspberry Pi) or Digital Machines. It consists of Dwelling Assistant Core, the Dwelling Assistant Supervisor, and helps apps. Dwelling Assistant Supervisor retains it updated, eradicating the necessity so that you can handle an working system. Dwelling Assistant Working System is the beneficial set up kind for many customers. now use a traditional internet deal with by default, with no quantity so as to add on the top. You attain your property the identical means you attain any web site. Nothing additional to recollect, nothing additional to kind.
Your present setup retains working
In case you are already working Dwelling Assistant, nothing adjustments and there’s nothing it’s essential do. This solely impacts new installations of Dwelling Assistant OS. Your current set up is totally unchanged, retains the precise port it has all the time used, and retains working simply as earlier than. If every little thing works at the moment, the only factor is to go away it precisely as it’s.
Wish to change the port? We’ve obtained you lined
You shouldn’t have to alter something, however if you need the cleaner deal with, or want to alter the port for one more cause, now you can do it your self from the interface. The identical display additionally holds just a few extra choices, like selecting which community connection Dwelling Assistant listens on and setting trusted proxies, for the setups that want them.
Altering one thing as elementary because the port your property lives on can really feel nerve-wracking, so we made it exhausting to get caught. While you change the online server settings, Dwelling Assistant applies the brand new configuration after which waits so that you can affirm every little thing nonetheless works. If you don’t affirm inside 5 minutes, it assumes one thing went incorrect, places your earlier settings again, and restarts. And if the brand new settings can’t be utilized in any respect, it falls again straight away. So in the event you ever lock your self out with the incorrect setting, you shouldn’t have to do something: wait a couple of minutes, and Dwelling Assistant returns you to the place you had been.
One factor to remember: something that reaches Dwelling Assistant utilizing the previous deal with might have updating to match the brand new port, akin to your bookmarks or different companies and instruments you have got related, together with the cell app. In case your setup works at the moment, that could be a good cause to go away it as it’s.
What this implies for YAML
If you happen to presently arrange the online server in YAMLYAML is a human-readable information serialization language. It’s used to retailer and transmit information in a structured format. In Dwelling Assistant, YAML is used for configuration, for instance within the configuration.yaml or automations.yaml information. [Learn more], you don’t want to alter something. The primary time you begin Dwelling Assistant after updating, your settings transfer into the interface for you, and also you handle them there from then on. You may additionally see a restore seem, simply to let you realize your settings had been imported; it could actually level you to tidying up the previous YAML in the event you like, however nothing breaks both means.
Much less “superior”, extra approachable
A phrase comes up round Dwelling Assistant lots: superior. However what does it really imply, and who will get to resolve what counts as superior and what doesn’t? Too typically it’s a label that quietly tells individuals a characteristic isn’t for them. We would like Dwelling Assistant to be approachable for everybody, so this launch removes a few of that language.
Describing the characteristic, not the person
The clearest place to begin is the phrases themselves. Labels like superior and professional had been dotted round Dwelling Assistant. Phrases like these may be discouraging: they recommend a characteristic isn’t for you and steer you away from making an attempt it, even when it’s completely approachable. This launch removes that wording in round 43 locations, throughout the app, its documentation, and the companion apps. None of those options modified. As an alternative of ranking your talent, the wording now merely describes what each does.
A giant thanks to everybody who helped comb via and clear this up! 👏
Simply Instruments, no developer required
In the identical spirit, Developer Instruments is now merely Instruments. It has all the time been a helpful spot for everybody, whether or not you might be checking the stateThe state holds the data of curiosity of an entity, for instance, if a lightweight is on or off. Every entity has precisely one state and the state solely holds one worth at a time. Nevertheless, entities can retailer attributes associated to that state akin to brightness, colour, or a unit of measurement. [Learn more] of your “gadgets”A tool is a mannequin representing a bodily or logical unit that incorporates entities., testing a templateA template is an automation definition that may embrace variables for the motion or information from the set off values. This permits automations to generate dynamic actions. [Learn more], or reloading a part of your setup, and also you by no means wanted to be a developer to make use of it. The shorter title matches how individuals really use it, and feels a little bit friendlier to open.
Dwelling Assistant Cloud, now simpler to discover
Dwelling Assistant Cloud by Nabu Casa is how many individuals add distant entry, quick and personal voice, encrypted backupsDwelling Assistant has built-in performance to create information containing a replica of your configuration. This can be utilized to revive your Dwelling Assistant in addition to migrate to a brand new system. The backup characteristic is accessible for all set up sorts. [Learn more], and extra to their residence, all whereas supporting the undertaking on the similar time. Till now, every little thing it affords lived on a single lengthy web page of switches and settings. This launch offers that web page a correct redesign.
The primary web page is now a clear overview. Every characteristic (distant entry, backups, voice assistants, the companion app, and extra) has its personal area, so you may see what you have got turned on at a look. The settings for each transfer onto their very own web page, which retains the overview tidy and makes each characteristic simpler to know by itself.
The larger change is for anybody simply getting began. There’s now a guided setup that walks you thru Dwelling Assistant Cloud step-by-step, as a substitute of leaving you to seek out your means round a wall of choices. If it’s not a superb second, you may put it off and decide it up once more later.
A giant thanks to @klejejs for this redesign!
Your entity IDs, your selection
Behind each systemA tool is a mannequin representing a bodily or logical unit that incorporates entities. and sensorSensors return details about a factor, as an example the extent of water in a tank. [Learn more] sits an entity ID, a brief title akin to gentle.kitchen_ceiling that your automationsAutomations in Dwelling Assistant permit you to routinely reply to issues that occur in and round your property. [Learn more], scriptsScripts are parts that permit you to specify a sequence of actions to be executed by Dwelling Assistant when turned on. [Learn more], and dashboards use to discuss with it. More often than not they appear after themselves. However whenever you do need them neat and constant, try to be the one deciding how they learn.
Some earlier work checked out constructing entity IDs routinely from the spaceAn space in Dwelling Assistant is a logical grouping of gadgets and entities that represents a room or area in your house, akin to the lounge, kitchen, or storage. [Learn more] a tool belongs to. Your suggestions instructed us this suited some individuals however not everybody. So this launch takes a extra versatile route and places you in cost: you may rename an entity ID your self, and management how it’s ordered, so your entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or operate in Dwelling Assistant. Entities are used to observe bodily properties or to regulate different entities. An entity is normally a part of a tool or a service. [Learn more] observe no matter naming sample is smart to you.
Due to @arturpragacz and @piitaya for this work.
A cleaner method to deal with your gadgets
Dwelling Assistant is altering the way it retains observe of your gadgets behind the scenes. Till now, if one bodily systemA tool is a mannequin representing a bodily or logical unit that incorporates entities. was arrange via two completely different integrationsIntegrations join and combine Dwelling Assistant along with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more], Dwelling Assistant merged them right into a single system. Particulars that may solely maintain one worth, such because the mannequin or serial quantity, might then conflict. From this launch, every integration retains its personal system entry, so nothing will get collapsed collectively.
While you replace, any gadgets that had been merged this manner are separated routinely, and their entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or operate in Dwelling Assistant. Entities are used to observe bodily properties or to regulate different entities. An entity is normally a part of a tool or a service. [Learn more] transfer to the fitting system for you. Most individuals is not going to discover a factor. Within the rarer instances the place a tool was arrange via multiple integration, you would possibly see it seem twice, as soon as per integration, and Dwelling Assistant might elevate a restore to let you realize.
There’s nothing it’s essential do. Your automationsAutomations in Dwelling Assistant permit you to routinely reply to issues that occur in and round your property. [Learn more] and scriptsScripts are parts that permit you to specify a sequence of actions to be executed by Dwelling Assistant when turned on. [Learn more] preserve working, as a result of Dwelling Assistant nonetheless sends actions to the fitting gadgets after the break up. The one issues which may want a re-evaluation are automations that time to a tool by its ID immediately, or the occasional uncommon setup. If a restore seems, simply observe it.
That is groundwork for extra versatile system dealing with we’re constructing towards over the approaching months, so consider it as a step alongside the best way quite than the completed image.
If you happen to construct a customized integrationA customized integration is an integration that has been created by somebody from the Dwelling Assistant neighborhood and has been revealed for others to make use of at their very own danger. Customized integrations should not supported by the Dwelling Assistant undertaking. They don’t seem to be reviewed or examined by the Dwelling Assistant improvement crew and thus might negatively impression the soundness of your Dwelling Assistant occasion. An instance of a customized integration is the Spook integration., most want no adjustments in any respect. If yours works with system particulars immediately, the developer weblog walks via what modified. There isn’t a rush: the earlier method retains working for now, so you have got loads of time.
Due to @emontnemery for this work.
We will’t cease including triggers and situations
Final launch, purpose-specific triggers and situations turned the friendlier method to construct automationsAutomations in Dwelling Assistant permit you to routinely reply to issues that occur in and round your property. [Learn more]: you describe the second you care about, like when the entrance door opens, as a substitute of piecing it collectively from the technical components beneath. This launch provides two extra of them.
Vibration now has situations to match its triggers. On prime of reacting the second vibration begins or stops, you may verify whether or not one thing is vibrating (or not) as a part of a much bigger automation, for instance, solely sending a “laundry is finished” message as soon as the washer has really stopped shaking.
Moon positive factors a set off and matching situations. You can begin an automation the second the moon enters a brand new section, or verify the present section as a part of a much bigger automation. Level it on the full moon, the brand new moon, or any change of section, and let your property take it from there, whether or not that’s temper lighting, a reminder, or only a little bit of enjoyable. 🌙
Thanks, @nielsrowinbik!
Integrations
Due to our neighborhood for protecting tempo with the brand new integrationsIntegrations join and combine Dwelling Assistant along with your gadgets, companies, 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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Dyson Infrared, added by @elax46
Management your Dyson followers via any infrared transmitter you have already got arrange in Dwelling Assistant. As a result of the connection solely goes a technique, Dwelling Assistant reveals the final command you despatched quite than the fan’s stay state. -
Fuelprices.dk, added by @MTrab
Observe present gas costs from Danish gas corporations in Dwelling Assistant. The combination pulls costs from the Fuelprices.dk service and creates a sensor for every product you choose at a station, so you may watch costs and construct automations round them. -
Gatus, added by @TN-1, launching at 🥈 silver high quality
Carry the well being of your companies into Dwelling Assistant out of your Gatus monitoring occasion. Every monitored endpoint reveals up as a binary sensorA binary sensor is an entity that studies certainly one of two mutually unique states, on or off. The system class determines how these states are labeled within the UI. For instance, open/closed for a door or detected/clear for movement. [Learn more], so you may put service standing on a dashboard or set off automations when one thing goes down or comes again up. -
GeoSphere Austria Warnings, added by @tklecka
Carry official climate warnings for Austria into Dwelling Assistant from GeoSphere Austria (previously ZAMG), the nationwide climate service. Warnings are issued per municipality and canopy occasions like storms, heavy rain, snow, black ice, thunderstorms, warmth, and chilly, so you may get notified or set off automations when the warning stage rises. -
Google Well being, added by @allenporter
Carry your well being and health information into Dwelling Assistant from Google Well being and the Fitbit Net API. After you join your Google account, you get sensors akin to steps, distance, weight, and resting coronary heart charge, and it could actually run alongside the prevailing Fitbit integration. -
Harbor Sleep, added by @Lash-L
Keep watch over your Harbor Sleep child monitor from Dwelling Assistant. The combination connects to the system in your native community and exposes sensors like temperature, Wi-Fi power, and stream high quality. -
Harman Luxurious Audio, added by @sbesh91
Management community streamers constructed on the Harman Luxurious Audio platform, such because the Arcam Radia ST5 and ST60, and equal JBL and Mark Levinson streamers. The combination talks to the system immediately in your native community, so no cloud account is required. -
Karakeep, added by @sli-cka
Join your self-hosted Karakeep bookmarking service to Dwelling Assistant and preserve observe of your bookmark statistics. Karakeep helps you save, set up, and tag hyperlinks, notes, and pictures, and this integration surfaces these numbers as sensors. -
LED Infrared, added by @tr4nt0r
Management LED lights via any infrared emitter you have already got arrange in Dwelling Assistant. It helps many branded and unbranded bulbs and strip controllers that use generic infrared remotes. Communication is one-way, so the combination makes use of assumed states. -
LiteLLM, added by @luismalves
Use a LiteLLM proxy as a dialog agent in Dwelling Assistant. LiteLLM places a single OpenAI-compatible API in entrance of many mannequin suppliers, so you may attain virtually any mannequin via one endpoint, hosted or self-hosted. Dwelling Assistant creates a dialog agent for every mannequin you configure. -
llama.cpp, added by @allenporter
Use a neighborhood llama.cpp server, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, as a dialog agent in Dwelling Assistant. You may arrange a number of brokers, every with its personal mannequin and directions, and preserve every little thing working by yourself {hardware}. -
Lyngdorf, added by @fishloa, launching at 🥈 silver high quality
Management Lyngdorf audio processors and amplifiers from Dwelling Assistant, together with energy, quantity, supply choice, and sound modes. The combination retains in sync with the system over your native community. -
Midea, added by @chemelli74
Carry gadgets that use the Midea protocol, akin to air conditioners and air purifiers, into Dwelling Assistant. The combination supplies data on the related gadgets and allows you to management their major options. -
NeoPool, added by @svasek, launching at 🥈 silver high quality
Monitor and handle pool controllers constructed on the NeoPool system, initially from Sugar Valley and offered beneath many manufacturers like Hidrolife, Aquarite, and Oxilife. It talks to your controller regionally over Modbus TCP, exposing water chemistry, filtration, and hydrolysis information with no cloud wanted. -
ScorpionTrack, added by @Herbertmt978, launching at 🥈 silver high quality
Comply with autos shared via a public ScorpionTrack location-share hyperlink in your Dwelling Assistant map. The combination reads the shared car feed and creates a system trackerSystem trackers are used to trace the presence, or location, of a tool. [Learn more] for every car, while not having your non-public account credentials.
Noteworthy enhancements to current integrations
It isn’t simply new integrationsIntegrations join and combine Dwelling Assistant along with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] which were added; current ones preserve getting higher too. Listed below are a few of the noteworthy enhancements this launch:
- Shelly now helps Enhanced Safety, the HTTPS-only mode on firmware 2.0 for gen2 and newer gadgets, and added help for Shelly circuit breakers, with on/off management plus output-state and safety-switch sensors. Thanks, @bieniu and @thecode!
- Reolink gained pre-siren entities and a movement system class on its AI-detection binary sensors. Thanks, @starkillerOG and @abmantis!
- Overkiz added window and tilt binary sensors for contact sensors, increase and drying-duration numbers for the Atlantic electrical towel dryer, and help for the Somfy Thermostat PRO. Thanks, @iMicknl!
- SwitchBot added help for the Candle Hotter Lamp and the RGBIC Neon Rope Mild, plus fan and choose controls for the Standing Fan. Thanks, @Onero-testdev!
- Roborock obtained loads of love for the Q10, with a do-not-disturb swap, swap entities, a map picture, and a quantity management. Thanks, @lboue and @tubededentifrice!
- Whirlpool added an oven gentle, an oven cook-mode choose, and an oven target-temperature quantity. Thanks, @matthewdias and @bdlcalvin!
- MQTT gained an infrared platform, so you may ship infrared instructions over MQTT. Thanks, @jbouwh!
- KNX obtained an entire set of enhancements. Button and notify entities can now be configured from the interface, the KNX panel gained a Ship telegram dialog (keyboard shortcut s), plus a datapoint kind (DPT) reference and a tool view on your undertaking information. On prime of that, all KNX entities now restore their state after a reload or restart. Thanks, @farmio!
- Enphase Envoy added ACB battery sensors, together with sleep and wake controls. Thanks, @genestealer!
- MELCloud gained on/off management, an operation-mode choose, and a flow-temperature quantity for air-to-water warmth pump zones. Thanks, @imilchev!
- MELCloud Dwelling added energy-consumption reporting and a quantity platform. Thanks, @erwindouna!
- Portainer added an replace platform and container well being standing. Thanks, @erwindouna!
- Mikrotik gained sensor, button, and replace platforms. Thanks, @chemelli74!
- Imou added swap and sensor platforms. Thanks, @Imou-OpenPlatform!
- Fronius added a binary sensor for backup mode. Thanks, @farmio!
- OpenAI Dialog now helps GPT-5.6. Thanks, @Shulyaka!
- WiiM added multi-room grouping and metadata synchronization. Thanks, @Linkplay2020!
- SMLIGHT added Bluetooth proxy help and an infrared receiver for SMLIGHT Ultima gadgets. Thanks, @tl-sl!
- Vizio added command aliases for its distant. Thanks, @raman325!
- Tesla Wall Connector added car present and Wi-Fi sign sensors. Thanks, @sarabveer!
- Teslemetry added management for seat coolers. Thanks, @Bre77!
- Tessie added a navigation-destination textual content entity. Thanks, @Mattheinrichs!
- Gardena Bluetooth added tank strain and water temperature sensors. Thanks, @icereed!
- Duco added air flow temperature sensors. Thanks, @ronaldvdmeer!
- Victron BLE added help for Orion XS and inverter gadgets. Thanks, @rajlaud!
- OMIE added an motion to get costs for a selected date. Thanks, @abmantis!
- Ecowitt added soil conductivity sensor help. Thanks, @GSzabados!
- Steam added a picture platform, plus new Final on-line, Stage, and Now enjoying sensors. Thanks, @tr4nt0r!
- LG Infrared added help for LG air conditioners. Thanks, @Dr-Clean!
- UniFi Shield now helps the USL sensible sensors (USL Entry, USL Environmental, and USL GlassBreak) on UniFi Shield 7.2 and newer, and cameras gained Movement detection, Good detection, and Sound detection occasion entities that fireplace for any detection the digital camera studies, akin to an individual, a package deal, or barking, with the detected kind as an attribute. Thanks, @RaHehl!
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 rejoice a number of integrationsIntegrations join and combine Dwelling Assistant along 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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5 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 important, 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 obtainable to arrange from the UI
Whereas most integrationsIntegrations join and combine Dwelling Assistant along with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] may be arrange immediately from the Dwelling Assistant person interface, some had been solely obtainable utilizing YAML configuration. We preserve shifting extra integrations to the UI, making them extra accessible for everybody to arrange and use.
The next integrations are actually obtainable by way of the Dwelling Assistant UI:
Farewell to the next
Time for a little bit cleansing, and no, we didn’t look ahead to spring! The next “integrations”Integrations join and combine Dwelling Assistant along with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] are not obtainable as of this launch:
- Permobil has been eliminated. Permobil deprecated the API it relied on, so the combination might not retrieve any information, and there’s no alternative obtainable.
- Volvo On Name has been eliminated. In case you have a supported Volvo, arrange the newer Volvo integration as a substitute.
Different noteworthy adjustments
There are a lot of extra enhancements on this launch; listed here are a few of the different noteworthy adjustments:
Inform us how setup went
In case you have arrange Dwelling Assistant not too long ago, you would possibly discover a brief, optionally available survey asking how your first expertise went. It’s fully as much as you, and each response helps us make getting began smoother for the subsequent individual. Thanks to everybody who shares their ideas! 💛
A roomier template editor
The template device in Instruments is the place you check out “templates”A template is an automation definition that may embrace variables for the motion or information from the set off values. This permits automations to generate dynamic actions. [Learn more] and watch the consequence replace as you kind. This launch offers it a extra snug format: the editor and the consequence now sit in a break up view you may drag to resize, and you may swap between facet by facet and stacked, whichever fits what you might be engaged on. Your selection is remembered for subsequent time.
Thanks, @maartenla!
Faucets that land the place you imply them
On the image components card, a faucet might set off the ingredient subsequent to the one you meant, or hit nothing in any respect, and a few components couldn’t be tapped. Faucets now go to the closest icon or label, so each ingredient may be reached, and tapping a label’s textual content all the time triggers that label. Thanks, @RaHehl!
A mixed battery stage you may belief
If you happen to observe multiple battery within the vitality dashboard, now you can give each a capability. The mixed state of cost is then weighted by dimension, so a small full battery and a big empty one not common out to a deceptive quantity. Batteries with no capability set preserve utilizing the plain common, so nothing adjustments except you need it to. Thanks, @MindFreeze!
Search your media
Shopping for the fitting music, photograph, or movie used to imply clicking via folder after folder. Now, integrationsIntegrations join and combine Dwelling Assistant along with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] that present media can provide search proper within the media browser, so that you kind what you might be in search of and leap straight to it.
What you may search is dependent upon the media supply. Immich, for instance, gained a wise search that finds pictures by what is definitely in them quite than by their filename, and Overseerr enables you to seek for and request films and reveals with out leaving Dwelling Assistant.
Thanks, @zweckj, @mib1185, and @felixschndr!
Discover your favourite playing cards quicker
Your most-used playing cards are actually simpler to seek out. Within the card picker’s “By Card” tab, now you can mark the playing cards you employ most as favorites utilizing the icon within the nook of every card. Favorited playing cards float to the highest of the part, so in the event you attain for a similar card repeatedly whereas constructing related dashboards, it’s all the time proper there ready for you. Faucet the icon once more to take away a card out of your favorites.
Thanks, @piitaya, @laupalombi, and everybody who steered this at a Launch Get together!
Z-Wave lock credentials, correctly managed
Managing who can unlock your Z-Wave lock simply obtained much more succesful. Powered by Z-Wave JS’s new Entry Management API, the Z-Wave JS app 1.6.0 brings a closely revised interface: each supported lock now will get a devoted Entry Management tab. For now, this lives in Z-Wave JS UI quite than within the Z-Wave panel in Dwelling Assistant.
Customers, their credentials, and a full audit path, multi functional place.
Relying on what your lock helps, now you can give every person a number of credentials of multiple kind, so the identical individual can have a PIN and a fingerprint, or a number of of each. New credentials may be discovered on the lock itself: begin the enrollment from the interface, then current the finger or kind the PIN. There’s additionally an audit log of each change, admin code administration for locks that use one, and the power to maneuver credentials between customers or delete them in bulk.
Replace the Z-Wave JS app to 1.6.0 or later, then open Z-Wave JS UI to seek out the brand new tab. Thanks, @AlCalzone!
And some extra
There’s much more packed into this launch. Listed below are a few of the different adjustments price a point out:
- Templates preserve getting quicker. One other spherical of “templates”A template is an automation definition that may embrace variables for the motion or information from the set off values. This permits automations to generate dynamic actions. [Learn more] efficiency work landed: templates with a numeric consequence are as much as 40% quicker, and templates used on dashboards can now be cached. Thanks, @frenck!
- Template entities keep in mind their state. Fan, cowlCovers are gadgets akin to blinds, storage doorways, and so on that may be opened and closed and optionally set to a selected place. [Learn more], and system trackerSystem trackers are used to trace the presence, or location, of a tool. [Learn more] template entities now restore their earlier state after a restart, in order that they decide up proper the place they left off. Thanks, @Petro31!
- Search finds extra of what’s related. While you search or open a tool or entity, Dwelling Assistant now digs deeper into what is expounded, so scenes, scripts, teams, the individuals behind an individual entity, and something sharing a label or space all present up the place you’ll anticipate them. It’s a small change that makes it a lot simpler to see how your setup matches collectively. Thanks, @frenck!
- A reboot heads-up on Dwelling Assistant OS. The system replaceAn replace entity is an entity that signifies if an replace is accessible for a tool or service. [Learn more] entity now lets you realize when an replace wants a reboot to complete. Thanks, @mdegat01!
- A brand new radon system class. Sensors and numbers can now be categorized as radon, so radon measurements get the fitting items and show. Thanks, @abmantis!
- Filter entities by producer and mannequin. The entity filter can now slender entities by producer, mannequin, and mannequin ID. Thanks, @Skaronator!
- Ask Help from fast search. Now you can begin an Help command straight from fast search. Thanks, @timmo001!
- A date on the clock card. The clock card can now present the date alongside the time. Thanks, @timmo001!
- Extra from the Exercise panel. The Exercise panel gained a CSV obtain and a clear-and-reset motion. Thanks, @karwosts and @timmo001!
Patch releases
We can even launch patch releases for Dwelling Assistant 2026.8 in August. These patch releases solely comprise bug fixes. Our aim is to launch a patch launch as soon as every week, aiming for Friday.
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Backward-incompatible adjustments
We do our greatest to keep away from making adjustments to current performance which may unexpectedly impression your Dwelling Assistant set up. Sadly, typically it’s inevitable.
We all the time make certain to doc these adjustments to make the transition as simple as doable for you. This launch has the next backward-incompatible adjustments:
AirNow
The station radius possibility has been eliminated. The 2026 AirNow API not makes use of a distance parameter, so the radius had no impact on which reporting station was used. Current entries are up to date routinely, and any radius you had set is discarded. No motion is required.
Gardena Bluetooth
The valve’s activation_reason sensor now studies a set set of values as a substitute of free-form textual content. In case you have automationsAutomations in Dwelling Assistant permit you to routinely reply to issues that occur in and round your property. [Learn more], scriptsScripts are parts that permit you to specify a sequence of actions to be executed by Dwelling Assistant when turned on. [Learn more], or “templates”A template is an automation definition that may embrace variables for the motion or information from the set off values. This permits automations to generate dynamic actions. [Learn more] that match on the previous textual content values, replace them to match the brand new ones.
Edifier Infrared
If you happen to arrange the Edifier Infrared integration for the R2000DB or R2730DB audio system, some buttons had been mapped to the incorrect infrared codes (on the R2730DB, energy and mute had been swapped). The mappings are actually corrected and migrated routinely. If you happen to constructed automationsAutomations in Dwelling Assistant permit you to routinely reply to issues that occur in and round your property. [Learn more] or scriptsScripts are parts that permit you to specify a sequence of actions to be executed by Dwelling Assistant when turned on. [Learn more] across the previous, incorrect buttons, replace them to match.
Ohme
The Ohme vitality sensor has been eliminated. It reported an estimate of the vitality saved within the automobile’s battery quite than the vitality delivered by the charger, which prompted complicated jumps within the vitality dashboard, and the seller’s API not supplies a helpful worth.
If you happen to tracked this sensor, use an Integration – Riemann sum helperA helper is a digital entity you create inside Dwelling Assistant. It isn’t backed by a bodily system. Helpers retailer values, observe state, or do calculations that your automations and dashboards want. [Learn more] on an influence sensor to estimate the vitality as a substitute.
(@dan-r – #174664) (Ohme documentation)
Paperless-ngx
Paperless-ngx now requires a more recent model of your Paperless-ngx server. The minimal supported server model is raised to 2.19, which additionally restores compatibility with Paperless-ngx 3.0. In case your Paperless-ngx server is on model 2.18 or older, replace it earlier than you replace Dwelling Assistant.
Robotic vacuums
The deprecated battery_level property has been faraway from the vacuum entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or operate in Dwelling Assistant. Entities are used to observe bodily properties or to regulate different entities. An entity is normally a part of a tool or a service. [Learn more] of a number of integrations. If you happen to use a robotic vacuum’s battery stage in an automationAutomations in Dwelling Assistant permit you to routinely reply to issues that occur in and round your property. [Learn more], scriptScripts are parts that permit you to specify a sequence of actions to be executed by Dwelling Assistant when turned on. [Learn more], or on a dashboard, use the vacuum’s battery sensor as a substitute.
This impacts the next integrations:
(@gjohansson-ST – #175681, #175684, #175685, #175686, #175687, #175688, #175691, #175764)
ScreenLogic
The choice to configure the pollingInformation polling is the method of querying a tool or service at common intervals to verify for updates or retrieve information. By defining a customized polling interval, you may management how regularly your system checks for brand spanking new information, which will help optimize efficiency and cut back pointless community site visitors. [Learn more] interval has been faraway from ScreenLogic. Dwelling Assistant now polls the combination at a set interval. If you happen to want a unique replace frequency, you may set your individual polling interval or set off an replace with the homeassistant.update_entity motion.
UniFi Shield
Assist for UniFi Shield AI Port gadgets has been eliminated. These gadgets solely ever uncovered diagnostic sensors, all disabled by default, and should not a part of the UniFi Shield public API the combination is shifting to. The AI Port system and its sensors are eliminated routinely whenever you replace. You may nonetheless configure the AI Port immediately in UniFi Shield.
(@RaHehl – #174378) (UniFi Shield documentation)
Detection scores are not obtainable. The detection binary sensors (movement, individual, car, animal, and the smart-audio alarm sensors) now take their state from the UniFi Shield public API, which carries no per-event rating, so their event_score attribute is gone and automations that filter on it want one other situation. The occasion id and the detected sorts moved to the brand new Movement detection, Good detection, and Sound detection occasion entities.
(@RaHehl – #174948) (UniFi Shield documentation)
UniFi Shield 7.1 or newer is now required. On an older console the combination studies that the model is just too previous as a substitute of establishing. Replace UniFi Shield to 7.1 or newer to maintain utilizing it.
Volvo On Name
The Volvo On Name integration has been eliminated. In case you have a supported Volvo, arrange the newer Volvo integration as a substitute.
In case you are a customized integration developer and wish to study adjustments and new options obtainable on your integration: Make sure you observe our developer weblog. The next adjustments are probably the most notable for this launch:
All adjustments
In fact, there’s much more on this launch. Yow will discover an inventory of all adjustments made right here: Full changelog for Dwelling Assistant Core 2026.8.
