2026.9: There’s room on this bus

House Assistant 2026.9! 🎉

I’ll be sincere: Modbus has by no means been the flashiest a part of House Assistant. It quietly powers photo voltaic inverters, warmth pumps, and vitality meters, however provided that you’re snug hand-writing your personal register map in YAML, an actual wall that’s stored an enormous class of gadgets out of attain. This launch lastly makes room on the bus: integrations that already understand how a tool talks over Modbus, sharing a single connection as a substitute of preventing over it, so that you merely choose your gadget within the UI like the rest in House Assistant. It received’t present up in a screenshot, however modernizing Modbus is hands-down my favourite change this launch. 🔧

I’m additionally actually trying ahead to leaping on the brand new Cloud voice processing myself and placing it by its paces. We’re a family with a non-English fundamental language, and should you’ve ever run a non-public voice assistant in a single, you understand precisely how briskly accents and background noise journey issues up. This new speech-to-text engine particularly targets these ache factors, so I’m very curious to see the way it holds up in opposition to my very own accent. 😉

And there’s lots extra: energetic alerts and favorites for the Safety dashboard, a shared Sources panel for Historical past and Exercise, Exercise that lastly explains why one thing modified, a model new community map for Matter, charts now you can navigate by keyboard and sound, and 13 new integrations! 🚀

Yet one more factor earlier than you dive in: we’re at IFA Berlin this weekend! It’s one of many largest shopper electronics expos on the market, operating September 4 to eight, 2026, and the Open House Basis has its personal sales space within the Good House corridor: Corridor 1.2, stand 1.2-153. In case you’re round, come discover us and say hello. 👋

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 @googanhiem and @piitaya who helped write these launch notes. Additionally, @Diegorro98, @jan-tdy, @RaHehl, and @farmio for placing effort into tweaking its contents. Due to them, these launch notes are in nice form. ❤️

House Assistant Cloud

House Assistant Cloud is a vital a part of funding the Open House Basis. We’re so grateful for all of the help from our subscribers, and from the beginning we’ve all the time been clear: this isn’t only a donation to House Assistant, we would like it to offer actual advantages to subscribers. Along with Nabu Casa, we’ve been continuously working to make Cloud higher, and listed below are some helpful latest additions.

Seeing by the Cloud

A brand new addition that ought to assist security-conscious House Assistant Cloud subscribers is the flexibility to higher see who’s making an attempt to log into your occasion. Up to now, all of them regarded like native requests, and you might have seen the 127.0.0.1 invalid login try message, which wasn’t that useful. Now the right IP tackle will get handed by, so whether or not that’s you mixing up your passwords when logging in, or some bot making an attempt their luck, you’ll now know higher the place it’s coming from.

A aspect advantage of this transformation is that it’s now attainable to make use of IP banning to make it more durable for these malicious actors, which was added to the UI within the earlier launch. At the side of organising multi-factor authentication (2FA) in House Assistant, you’ll be able to add a bit of additional peace of thoughts to your property, however that’s not the one Cloud profit being improved this month.

Take a look at the brand new voice processing

Once we launched House Assistant Voice Preview Version, a very good quantity of the group jumped into operating their very own non-public voice assistants of their houses. Constructing one thing to rival huge tech remains to be a work-in-progress, however yearly we get nearer. At present, we’re once more asking for our Cloud subscribers to assist us check one other superior step ahead.

Our buddies at Nabu Casa are testing a brand new speech-to-text engine for House Assistant Cloud, and it considerably improves the three widespread locations voice processing will get tripped up: accents, background noise, and non-English languages. Many people across the Basis have been utilizing it and discovering it really works nice with our generally distinctive accents even in noisy environments.

There are a number of huge modifications below the hood, together with switching to a brand new supplier Soniox, so it must be examined. You’ll nonetheless get the identical privateness assure of no logging, storing, or coaching in your audio. It’ll be obtainable to check through Labs, with the conventional caveat that it will not be a everlasting addition, so present your suggestions on the Labs web page if it’s the suitable step ahead.

In case you’re a House Assistant Cloud subscriber, you’ll be able to toggle this on proper now by heading to Settings > System > Labs. In case you’re not a subscriber, there’s a 31-day trial. Talking of which, there are some huge enhancements on signing up coming as properly.

Float in to be a Cloud subscriber

Signing up for House Assistant Cloud now begins on a clearer begin web page: one apparent button to Begin your free trial, and a hyperlink to Sign up if you have already got an account. It additionally lastly exhibits what you’ll really be getting. The outdated web page left you to guess what was behind that button, which, truthful sufficient, didn’t assist anybody. Now the options are listed proper there, earlier than you even begin the trial.

Now confirming your e-mail will mechanically log you in to House Assistant Cloud, so you’ll be able to instantly arrange distant entry, voice, and backupsHouse Assistant has built-in performance to create information containing a replica of your configuration. This can be utilized to revive your House Assistant in addition to migrate to a brand new system. The backup characteristic is offered for all set up sorts. [Learn more]. No extra logging in after signing up! And as all the time, the one-month trial requires no fee particulars.

House Assistant Cloud is constructed and run by Nabu Casa, a industrial associate of the Open House Basis. Each subscription funds the muse straight, and with it, the full-time improvement of House Assistant, this launch included. 😊

In return, you get safe distant entry with no port forwarding or VPN, encrypted off-site backupsHouse Assistant has built-in performance to create information containing a replica of your configuration. This can be utilized to revive your House Assistant in addition to migrate to a brand new system. The backup characteristic is offered for all set up sorts. [Learn more] prepared to revive your complete system the second you want them, quicker and extra correct speech-to-text and text-to-speech in your personal voice assistant, native Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant help, and extra. It’s all constructed with the identical respect in your privateness as House Assistant itself: no advertisements, no information harvesting, only a service that retains House Assistant unbiased.

When you have been desirous about a subscription, there has by no means been a neater second to strive it.

Lively alerts and favorites for the Safety dashboard

The brand new Lively alerts part solely exhibits up when one thing really wants your consideration, like a door left open or a smoke detector going off. You select which entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or perform in House Assistant. Entities are used to watch bodily properties or to manage different entities. An entity is normally a part of a tool or a service. [Learn more] can set off it, and the way critical each is, as an Alert or a Warning, so a window left open doesn’t get the identical crimson therapy as an precise smoke alarm. Nothing happening? The part stays out of the way in which fully.

Proper alongside it, a brand new Favorites part helps you to pin the entities you test most, so your most vital doorways, locks, or sensorsSensors return details about a factor, as an example the extent of water in a tank. [Learn more] sit on the prime of the dashboard as a substitute of wherever they occur to fall.

This began as a community-designed idea from @ricardoantoniocm, proper right down to the severity colours and the pulsing animation for something that wants consideration. It’s a part of an Open House Basis roadmap alternative to convey severity to the Safety dashboard, and there’s extra to come back: surfacing these identical alerts on the House dashboard remains to be on the checklist for a future launch.

A brand new Sources pane for Historical past and Exercise

Searching and discovering what you’re searching for in Historical past and Exercise may be daunting, so… we made it higher! Each pages now share a single Sources panel on the left aspect that merges goal choosing (flooringA ground in House Assistant is a logical grouping of areas that are supposed to match the bodily flooring in your house. Units & entities should not assigned to flooring however to areas. Flooring can be utilized in automations and scripts as a goal for actions. For instance, to show off all of the lights on the downstairs ground once you go to mattress. [Learn more], areasAn space in House Assistant is a logical grouping of gadgets and entities that represents a room or house in your house, equivalent to the lounge, kitchen, or storage. [Learn more], gadgetsA tool is a mannequin representing a bodily or logical unit that comprises entities., and entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or perform in House Assistant. Entities are used to watch bodily properties or to manage different entities. An entity is normally a part of a tool or a service. [Learn more]) with filtering by areaEvery integration in House Assistant has a novel identifier: The area. It’s usually proven as the primary half (earlier than the dot) of entity IDs., gadget class, and integrationIntegrations join and combine House Assistant together with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more], so you’ll be able to slender an entire space right down to, say, simply its movement sensors. The panel docks to the aspect and opens mechanically on wider screens, and tucks away as a pull-up sheet on narrower ones. No matter you filter on is remembered the following time you come again.

The 2 pages nonetheless behave the way in which they all the time have, on function: Historical past waits so that you can choose one thing earlier than it attracts a chart, since displaying all the pieces without delay wouldn’t be very helpful (or quick in that regard 😅). Exercise retains displaying all the pieces by default, and you’ll slender it down with filters alone, no goal required.

A few smaller enhancements come alongside for the experience: the date vary picker is now a single capsule with earlier and subsequent arrows, and lengthy entity names on the Historical past timeline draw above their bar and truncate to suit, as a substitute of being lower off. At all times good to see the eye to element.

This follows an Open House Basis design dialogue on giving Historical past and Exercise a shared structure.

From what modified to why it modified

Open Exercise and you’ll see precisely what modified: a light-weight turned on, a door unlocked, a blind closed. What you couldn’t see was why. Figuring that out meant guessing which automationAutomations in House Assistant let you mechanically reply to issues that occur in and round your property. [Learn more] was accountable, opening it, digging into its hint, and dealing backward to the entityAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or perform in House Assistant. Entities are used to watch bodily properties or to manage different entities. An entity is normally a part of a tool or a service. [Learn more] that really triggered it. It bought more durable nonetheless after a latest redesign of the log rows, which traded the sentence that used to elucidate the place an entry got here from for displaying an entity’s space and gadget as a substitute, so even that small trace disappeared.

Choosing any row in Exercise now opens a particulars dialog that lays out the total story, learn prime to backside: what began it (an individual, a state change, a schedule, an integrationIntegrations join and combine House Assistant together with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more], or a restart), the automationsAutomations in House Assistant let you mechanically reply to issues that occur in and round your property. [Learn more] or scriptsScripts are parts that let you specify a sequence of actions to be executed by House Assistant when turned on. [Learn more] it handed by, and at last the entity’s personal change. Each step in that chain is clickable, opening the entity behind it or, for automations, its hint straight. Timestamps go right down to the millisecond, so even occasions that landed in the identical second hold their right order.

Insights into your Matter world

Zigbee (by ZHA), Z-Wave, and Bluetooth have proven you a map of how their gadgets join to one another for some time now. 🗺️ MatterMatter is an open-source commonplace that defines the right way to management sensible residence gadgets on a Wi-Fi or Thread community. [Learn more] by no means bought the identical therapy in House Assistant, although the info existed all alongside, simply not right here: the Matter Server has its personal working community map, tucked away in a separate internet interface most individuals by no means open.

The Matter panel now has a Present map button that brings that very same image proper into House Assistant, utilizing the identical graph expertise you already know from the opposite protocols. It exhibits the total image: which gadgets discuss over ThreadThread is a low-power mesh networking commonplace that’s particularly designed for sensible residence functions. It’s a protocol that defines how gadgets talk. [Learn more] and which over Wi-Fi, which of them are routers or “border routers”A Thread border router forwards information packets between your native community and the Thread community. This permits sensible residence gadgets inside a Thread community to speak with IPv6-capable gadgets in your native community. A Thread border router is linked to your community both through Wi-Fi or Ethernet and makes use of its radio frequency (RF) radio to speak with the Thread mesh community. In case of Matter, the info that’s forwarded is encrypted. Examples of Thread border routers are the Nest Hub (2nd gen), the HomePod mini, and the House Assistant Join ZBT-2 along with the OpenThread Border Router app. [Learn more] versus battery-powered finish gadgets, and the trail from House Assistant to every one. Border routers and entry factors are named from belongings you’d really acknowledge, like their community host identify or Wi-Fi community identify, as a substitute of a serial quantity. Hyperlink shade tells you the transport, Thread or Wi-Fi, and the thickness and course replicate the sign power on all sides of the connection.

In case your Matter server is a bit older and doesn’t help this but, the web page tells you so as a substitute of simply failing, so you understand to replace fairly than assume one thing’s damaged.

This closes out an Open House Basis roadmap alternative to convey Matter’s community map in step with the opposite protocols.

New tile card options

The tile card retains gaining extra methods to manage an entityAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or perform in House Assistant. Entities are used to watch bodily properties or to manage different entities. An entity is normally a part of a tool or a service. [Learn more] with out opening its more-info dialog, and this launch provides three, all from the identical contributor.

Lights get a brand new Gentle impact characteristic, so you’ll be able to choose and preview an impact, like Rainbow, straight from the tile.

Vacuums get a brand new Vacuum fan pace characteristic, so you’ll be able to change between fan speeds, like min, medium, excessive, or max, proper alongside the prevailing begin, cease, and dock instructions.

And the prevailing Goal humidity characteristic, beforehand restricted to humidifiers, now additionally works with Local weatherThe Local weather entity means that you can management and monitor HVAC (heating, ventilating, and air-con) gadgets and thermostats. [Learn more] entities that help humidity management, utilizing the step measurement your gadget studies as a substitute of a hard and fast one.

All three include matching tile card strategies, so House Assistant presents so as to add them mechanically after they make sense for an entity.

Due to @pcan08 for all three!

Yet one more tile card repair: with the Function place set to Inline, solely the primary characteristic used to indicate up, and the remaining have been silently dropped. Now the primary one sits subsequent to the entity identify as earlier than, and the others seem under it in two columns.

Due to @JulianHock for that one!

Modernizing Modbus

Modbus gadgets, like photo voltaic inverters, vitality meters, and warmth pumps, have lengthy been supported in House Assistant by the YAMLYAML is a human-readable information serialization language. It’s used to retailer and transmit information in a structured format. In House Assistant, YAML is used for configuration, for instance within the configuration.yaml or automations.yaml information. [Learn more]-based Modbus integration, the place you hand-write a register map in your gadget your self. That also works and isn’t going anyplace, but it surely places the burden of understanding a tool’s protocol on each person. This launch lays the groundwork for a special means: integrations that already understand how a tool talks over Modbus, so that you choose your gadget within the UI, the identical as some other integration.

The primary integrations constructed this fashion are already right here: Fronius gained elective Modbus TCP (SunSpec) help, including per-string photo voltaic information — present, voltage, energy, and lifelong vitality for every MPP tracker — that its present native HTTP API doesn’t expose. It shares its reference to the rest speaking to the identical inverter, which issues in apply: some Fronius fashions solely settle for a handful of simultaneous Modbus classes. Sofar Inverter Modbus and Flexit are constructed the identical means.

For the total story, together with the brand new standalone modbus-connection library and the right way to construct your personal integration on prime of it, learn Modernizing Modbus in House Assistant on the developer weblog. Beneath, it talks to gadgets by tmodbus, a contemporary, absolutely typed Modbus library.

Due to Paulus (@balloob) for pushing this ahead, @wlcrs for tmodbus, the library it’s constructed on, @farmio for Fronius, @darkrain-nl for Sofar Inverter Modbus, and @troelde for Flexit!

Integrations

Due to our group for protecting tempo with the brand new integrationsIntegrations join and combine House Assistant together with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] and enhancements to present ones! You’re all superior 🥰

New integrations

• Besen, added by @moryoav
  Join Besen EV chargers to House Assistant over Bluetooth Low Power, utilizing House Assistant’s built-in Bluetooth help or an ESPHome Bluetooth proxy. It really works with the Besen BS20 charging station and different Besen chargers that use the identical protocol.

• Assortment picture, added by @karwosts
  Flip a folder from a media supply right into a dynamic picture entity. House Assistant picks a random image from the folder, so you’ll be able to present a altering picture on a dashboard or use it as a view background.

• Stream-it, added by @albertogeniola
  Monitor and management your Stream-it air flow system from House Assistant. Regulate the fan pace, change between preset modes equivalent to Auto and Increase, and convey it into your automations alongside your different sensible residence gadgets. The combination connects to the gadget in your native community and helps computerized discovery.

• Scorching Spring, added by @Moustachauve, launching at 🏆 platinum high quality
  Monitor and management a Scorching Spring spa geared up with the HotSpring Related Spa Equipment 2 module, straight over your native community.

• ISEO Argo BLE, added by @FezVrasta
  Management an ISEO Argo Bluetooth sensible lock, widespread on armored doorways in Italy and Switzerland, syncing its entry log into the House Assistant logbook and managing its customers by actions. House Assistant seems to the lock as its personal gateway, polling it domestically over Bluetooth.

• LibreNMS, added by @mib1185
  Convey your LibreNMS community monitoring occasion into House Assistant. This preliminary launch provides a binary sensor for the net standing of every monitored gadget, with alerts and extra sensor information deliberate for later.

• NexBlue, added by @nexblue-maintainer
  Join a NexBlue EV charger account to House Assistant. It discovers the chargers in your account and gives read-only sensors for charging state, energy, session and lifelong vitality, and different electrical and diagnostic values. Charging controls are deliberate for a future launch.

• Ridder HortiMaX Professional, added by @wildekek
  Convey measurements from a Ridder HortiMaX Professional greenhouse controller into House Assistant, together with temperatures, humidity, vent and display screen positions, irrigation volumes, and vitality use. The combination is read-only, so your rising choices keep absolutely within the controller’s palms. It’s the identical sort of controller operating the greenhouses at Amsterdam’s Hortus Botanicus, one of many oldest botanical gardens on this planet, which we visited earlier Learn the total story in our publication.

• Samsung TV through ExLink, added by @balloob, launching at 🥈 silver high quality
  Management Samsung TVs by their RS-232 serial port, which Samsung markets as ExLink, utilizing a serial cable, a USB-to-serial adapter, or an ESPHome-based serial proxy. Speaking on to the TV’s serial port makes management quick and dependable, and it additionally works with TVs that lack sensible options or a community connection.

• Silla Prism, added by @ebaschiera
  Monitor a Silla Prism EV wallbox over its native MQTT API, with sensors for charging standing, energy, present, voltage, and session and lifelong vitality. Setup solely wants the MQTT matter your Silla app already exhibits you. Charging controls are deliberate for a future launch.

• Sofar Inverter Modbus, added by @darkrain-nl
  Join a Sofar Photo voltaic inverter to House Assistant over Modbus TCP, both straight or by a Modbus TCP bridge. Setup mechanically detects your inverter mannequin, and it really works with each PV-only and hybrid inverters with battery storage.

• Specialised Turbo, added by @JamieMagee
  Join a Specialised Turbo e-bike over Bluetooth Low Power, overlaying the TCU1 and TCX1 by TCX4 fashions, with detailed experience and battery telemetry. Encrypted bikes can register by your Specialised account or use a manually entered key, and House Assistant manages the Bluetooth connection itself with out storing your password.

• Tonewinner, added by @emma-sg, launching at 🥈 silver high quality
  Management Tonewinner AV processors, receivers, and amps over an RS-232 serial connection, utilizing a USB-to-serial adapter or an ESPHome-based serial proxy.

This launch additionally has new digital integrations. Digital integrations are stubs which are dealt with by different (present) integrations to assist with findability. These ones are new:

• Ariston, offered by Midea, added by @chemelli74
• Beverly, offered by Midea, added by @chemelli74
• Bugu, offered by Midea, added by @chemelli74
• Provider, offered by Midea, added by @chemelli74
• Colmo, offered by Midea, added by @chemelli74
• Comfee, offered by Midea, added by @chemelli74
• Inventor, offered by Midea, added by @chemelli74
• Little Swan, offered by Midea, added by @chemelli74
• Netsu, offered by Midea, added by @chemelli74
• Olimpia Splendid, offered by Midea, added by @chemelli74
• Professional Breeze, offered by Midea, added by @chemelli74
• Rotenso, offered by Midea, added by @chemelli74
• Toshiba Way of life, offered by Midea, added by @chemelli74
• Vandelo, offered by Midea, added by @chemelli74
• Wahin, offered by Midea, added by @chemelli74

Noteworthy enhancements to present integrations

It isn’t simply new integrationsIntegrations join and combine House Assistant together with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] which have been added; present ones hold getting higher too. Listed here are a number of the noteworthy enhancements this launch:

• Tuya added help for the HCDD gadget class, overlaying chasing tape lights, so these RGB LED strips may be managed like some other mild. Thanks, @AnthonyZavala!
• Shelly cameras at the moment are absolutely supported, with a digital camera platform, movement detection, and a privateness change to disable the lens. The Wall Show XL additionally gained its personal movement sensor, and local weather entities now report the right heating and cooling standing when a thermostat’s relay output is wired inverted. Thanks, @bieniu!
• HomeKit System gained period, fault, and low battery sensors for extra HomeKit equipment, so you’ll be able to see how lengthy a valve has been operating, catch a failing accent, and get a heads-up earlier than a battery-powered sensor drops offline. Thanks, @nijel!
• LG webOS TV added a change to show off simply the display screen whereas protecting the sound operating, helpful if you wish to hold listening with out the image. Thanks, @darkrain-nl!
• Reolink gained floodlight on/off schedule instances, a button to synchronize the digital camera’s clock, a choose to decide on the anti-flicker frequency, and the flexibility to allow or disable the tamper alarm. Thanks, @Lukkasss and @starkillerOG!
• Roborock introduced dock controls, equivalent to beginning mop washing, drying, or emptying, to V1 vacuums. Thanks, @piitaya!
• Google Gemini added a pondering funds possibility for Gemini 2.5 fashions and a pondering degree possibility for Gemini 3 fashions, so you’ll be able to tune how a lot the mannequin causes earlier than it responds. Thanks, @mxwmnn!
• House Join gained new occasion sensors, together with brief and lengthy presses of the Favourite button on hobs and hoods, and a setpoint temperature possibility for air conditioners. Thanks, @Diegorro98!
• Tado helps you to select which heating circuit serves a zone, helpful in houses with multiple circuit, like a mixture of underfloor heating and radiators. Thanks, @PeterLinuxOSS!
• SwitchBot Cloud now helps the Everlasting Out of doors Lights string lighting and the Curtain4 curtain motor, so you’ll be able to management them from House Assistant alongside the remainder of your SwitchBot gadgets. Thanks, @XiaoLing-git!
• KNX climate and choose entities can now be created straight from the KNX panel within the UI, and YAML-defined entities may be given an express distinctive ID as a substitute of counting on the auto-generated one. YAML entities can now even be assigned to gadgets. Thanks, @farmio and @martinhoefling!
• Proxmox VE added a button to pause a VM, helpful for liberating up sources for a second, for instance whereas one other job wants the additional headroom, with out absolutely shutting the VM down. Thanks, @erwindouna!
• HomematicIP Cloud added a carbon dioxide sensor for supported gadgets, so you’ll be able to set off air flow or an air air purifier automation when CO2 ranges creep up in a room. Thanks, @lackas!
• VIZIO SmartCast now helps Crave moveable audio system, with a battery degree sensor and a charging binary sensor. Thanks, @raman325!
• Setting Canada radar photographs can now be smoothed for a much less blocky image and prolonged with a short-term forecast, so you’ll be able to see rain or snow coming earlier than it really arrives. Thanks, @michaeldavie!
• MikroTik gained switches to show Ethernet and Wi-Fi interfaces on or off, a choose to set the PoE output mode, a binary sensor for interface connectivity, and extra sensors, together with a repair for incorrect voltage readings on the netPower 16P. Thanks, @chemelli74!
• Mealie added actions to replace and delete mealplan entries, so you’ll be able to handle subsequent week’s dinners from an automation or script as a substitute of opening the app. Thanks, @andrew-codechimp!
• Portainer added a Docker occasion entity, so container lifecycle modifications attain House Assistant instantly as a substitute of ready for the following replace cycle. Thanks, @erwindouna!
• Transmission added a sensor for obtainable disk house, so you may get a warning earlier than your obtain folder fills up. Thanks, @Eniot666!
• Honeywell Lyric added a schedule standing sensor, so you’ll be able to inform at a look whether or not your thermostat is following its schedule or somebody put it on a short lived maintain. Thanks, @clutch2sft!
• Teslemetry added a rear defroster binary sensor, so you’ll be able to automate it on a chilly morning, and a canopy entity for the Cybertruck’s tonneau, so you’ll be able to open and shut the mattress cowl from House Assistant. Thanks, @Bre77!
• IOmeter added entities for three-phase electrical energy meters, so houses with a three-phase connection get correct readings for each section as a substitute of simply the entire. Thanks, @torben-iometer!
• Trendy Varieties added help for breeze mode, which varies the fan pace to imitate a pure breeze. Thanks, @wonderslug!
• Midea grew considerably this launch, with new fan, humidifier, mild, and change controls, choose and quantity entities to configure your equipment, buttons for widespread actions, and a full mud filter alert binary sensor. Thanks, @chemelli74!
• Subaru added binary sensors for doorways, home windows, and the hood or tailgate, per-door lock standing, EV plug and charging state, and car well being warning lights. Thanks, @jpettitt!
• Anova cook dinner time sensors now counsel hours because the displayed unit, making lengthy cook dinner instances simpler to learn. Thanks, @goetzc!
• iZone now exhibits the availability and return air temperatures of your ducted system, so you’ll be able to spot a struggling compressor or a clogged filter earlier than it turns into a much bigger downside. Thanks, @Swamp-Ig!
• Imou added a choose entity to vary night time imaginative and prescient mode and quantity, and a binary sensor for door and window contacts. Thanks, @Imou-OpenPlatform!
• OpenEVSE added switches for photo voltaic PV divert, so you’ll be able to cost from surplus solar energy, the present shaper, which limits charging to guard your property’s electrical service, and a handbook override to power charging on or off. Thanks, @firstof9!
• Inexperienced Planet Power added a get_prices motion to fetch electrical energy costs for a given interval, helpful for constructing your personal value charts or automations that react to tomorrow’s charges. Thanks, @petschni!
• Vistapool added time entities for the three filtration schedule intervals, so you’ll be able to regulate when your pool pump runs straight from House Assistant as a substitute of the Vistapool app. Thanks, @fdebrus!
• ToGrill added a button to silence the alarm, helpful when your meals has reached temperature and also you’d fairly not stroll over to the grill to quiet the beeping. Thanks, @thumbnail!
• Watergate added a change to show the Sonic gadget’s computerized leak shut-off on or off. Thanks, @adam-the-hero!
• IntelliClima added a binary sensor that studies when the filter wants cleansing. Thanks, @dvdinth!
• Lyngdorf rounded out its debut with quantity entities for lip sync and channel trims, a distant entity to drive the processor’s on-screen menus, selects for RoomPerfect place and voicing, sensors for the energetic enter and streaming supply, and now-playing info with transport controls for fashions with a streaming module. Thanks, @fishloa!
• Harbor Sleep added a choose entity to set the digital camera’s night time mode to Auto, On, or Off, so you’ll be able to management it from House Assistant as a substitute of the Harbor app. Thanks, @Lash-L!
• NeoPool added a pool mild entity, plus an choices move to decide in to it, because the controller can’t detect whether or not a light-weight is definitely wired to the relay. Thanks, @svasek!
• UniFi Defend can now be arrange with simply an API key out of your UniFi OS Console, no native person account required. Choose API key solely (restricted characteristic set) when including the mixing, or change an present entry over at any time. This primary usable piece of the general public API migration covers the alarm panel, cameras with their streams and snapshots, and lights. Sensors, switches, occasions, and media looking should not obtainable on this mode but, and extra platforms observe as they transfer over. Thanks, @RaHehl!

Integration high quality scale achievements

One factor we’re extremely happy with in House 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 fun a number of integrationsIntegrations join and combine House Assistant together with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] which have improved their high quality scale:

• 3 integrations reached platinum 🏆

• 1 integration reached gold 🥇

• 1 integration reached silver 🥈

This can be a enormous achievement for these integrations and their maintainers. The hassle and dedication required to succeed in these high quality ranges is important, because it includes intensive testing, documentation, error dealing with, and sometimes full rewrites of elements of the mixing.

A giant thanks to all of the contributors concerned! 👏

Now obtainable to arrange from the UI

Whereas most integrationsIntegrations join and combine House Assistant together with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] may be arrange straight from the House Assistant person interface, some have been solely obtainable utilizing YAML configuration. We hold shifting extra integrations to the UI, making them extra accessible for everybody to arrange and use.

The next integrations at the moment are obtainable through the House Assistant UI:

Farewell to the next

Time for a bit of cleansing, and no, we didn’t await spring! The next “integrations”Integrations join and combine House Assistant together with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] are now not obtainable as of this launch:

• VLC has been eliminated. It required direct entry to your system’s audio {hardware}, which solely labored on the deprecated House Assistant CoreHouse Assistant Core is the Python program on the coronary heart of House Assistant. It’s a part of all set up sorts. It may be put in standalone (with out House Assistant Supervisor) as a container utilizing Docker (that is usually known as the House Assistant Container set up sort). For improvement, Core can be run utilizing a Digital Setting (beforehand referred because the House Assistant Core set up sort). For manufacturing setup, the House Assistant Core set up sort is deprecated. set up methodology. This doesn’t have an effect on the separate VLC through Telnet integration, which stays obtainable on any set up methodology.

Different noteworthy modifications

• Settings gained a brand new Connectivity web page that teams Matter, Zigbee, Z-Wave, KNX, MQTT, Thread, Bluetooth, Serial, Infrared, Radio frequency, Insteon, and Tags behind a single entry, as a substitute of itemizing each straight within the settings menu. Each present hyperlink retains working, and Voice assistants moved down to hitch it because the settings root’s brief second group. Thanks, @balloob!
• Template bought some extra love this launch. Thanks, @Petro31!
  • Customized attribute templates have been added to alarm management panel, button, cowl, gadget tracker, fan, picture, mild, lock, quantity, choose, change, replace, and climate entities, alongside the binary sensor, occasion, sensor, and vacuum platforms that already supported them.
  • The attributes possibility is now absolutely templatable, slicing down on repeated Jinja2 templates.
  • Set off-based template entities now help a per-entity circumstances possibility. When set, the circumstances block all updates to the entity it’s hooked up to.
• Button triggers can now additionally fireplace from button helpers, alongside bodily gadget buttons. Thanks, @abmantis!
• Automation traces now present which entities, gadgets, and areas every step focused, the identical means the automation editor already does, as a substitute of baking that info into the step’s personal description. Thanks, @piitaya!
• Cowl open, shut, and set place actions gained an elective pace parameter, so covers that help a number of speeds may be informed how briskly to maneuver, not simply the place to. Thanks, @wollew!
• The restart affirmation dialog now lists the automations and scripts at the moment operating, as a substitute of a obscure warning that some is likely to be interrupted. The checklist updates stay as they begin and cease. Thanks, @karwosts, @MindFreeze, and @NoRi2909!
• The Power dashboard now labels particular person gadgets with their gadget identify, not simply the naked entity identify, so gadgets that share a generic sensor identify like Power are simple to inform aside throughout the graphs, sankeys, and configuration checklist. Thanks, @MindFreeze and @silamon!
• Dashboards gained a Background tab of their element editor, so you’ll be able to set a dashboard’s background straight from the UI as a substitute of needing YAML. Thanks, @timmo001!
• Looking out the media browser now additionally reaches media gamers with their very own library, equivalent to Music Assistant, Sonos, Squeezebox, and Jellyfin, as a substitute of solely looking out media sources. Thanks, @marcelveldt, @bramkragten, and @silamon!

Golden hour, blue hour, and polar solar automations

Rebuilding automationsAutomations in House Assistant let you mechanically reply to issues that occur in and round your property. [Learn more] across the solar has been a slow-burn venture, and this launch wraps it up. 2026.7 changed the outdated, offset-heavy solar set offA set off is a set of values or circumstances of a platform which are outlined to trigger an automation to run. [Learn more] with devoted ones for dawn, sundown, photo voltaic midday, photo voltaic midnight, daybreak, nightfall, and elevation modifications, plus matching circumstancesSituations are an elective a part of an automation that may forestall an motion from firing if they aren’t met. [Learn more] like is up, is night time, and twilight. 2026.8 then added a time-based offset choice to these triggers, the identical means the calendar set off already works, so you’ll be able to fireplace an automation a set period of time earlier than or after a solar occasion.

This launch provides the final of it to the Solar integration: 4 new circumstances and eight matching triggers for golden hour, blue hour, midnight solar, and polar night time. Golden hour and blue hour are the nice and cozy and funky mild both aspect of dawn and sundown, helpful for automations that match your lighting to the temper outdoors, or shut the blinds earlier than direct solar hits a room. Each may be restricted to morning, night, or both.

Farther from the equator, midnight solar and polar night time cowl the extra excessive stretches of the 12 months: the solar staying above the horizon for a full day round midsummer, or under it for a full day round midwinter. Each now have their very own situation and begin and finish triggers too, so automations that solely make sense at excessive latitudes lastly have one thing to hook into. Documentation for the total set remains to be catching up.

Thanks, @emontnemery!

Accessibility for charts!

Making House Assistant work for everybody isn’t a one-off venture for us, it exhibits up launch after launch. Higher shade distinction and clearer buttons landed in 2025.8, clearer standing indicators for individuals who can’t depend on shade alone arrived in 2026.7, and this launch, it’s charts’ flip.

Charts render straight to a single picture, which implies each information level on them has been invisible to display screen readers and unreachable by keyboard. In case you depend on both, a chart in House Assistant may as properly not have been there in any respect.

That modifications this launch. Tab right into a chart and it turns into an actual focus cease: the arrow keys stroll you thru it level by level, and a stay area publicizes the time and worth of every one to your display screen reader. Press H at any level to convey up an inventory of each shortcut, styled to match your personal theme.

Right here’s the very best half: as you progress by a chart, House Assistant additionally performs a brief tone for every level, rising and falling with the info. You don’t simply hear the person numbers, you hear the form of the entire pattern, like a bit of melody. 🎵 It performs for anybody navigating a chart by keyboard, not solely individuals utilizing a display screen reader, since there isn’t any dependable method to know who wants it, so it’s on for everybody.

This works in your line and bar charts, together with the gadget breakdown on the Power dashboard. A couple of extra specialised ones, like timelines, sankey diagrams, and community graphs, aren’t coated but.

Due to @MindFreeze for bringing this to charts!

Serial and MQTT panels

Serial joins the opposite protocol panels below Settings > Connectivity, the identical recognition infrared and radio frequency bought over the past two releases. As soon as something is utilizing a serial port, whether or not that’s a USB dongle like a Zigbee or ThreadThread is a low-power mesh networking commonplace that’s particularly designed for sensible residence functions. It’s a protocol that defines how gadgets talk. [Learn more] radio, or an appApps are extra standalone third-party software program packages that may be put in on House Assistant OS. [Learn more] speaking to 1, the brand new Serial web page lists it.

It splits what it finds into three teams: ports really in use by an integration or app, ports which are linked however not utilized by something, and ports one thing expects however that aren’t at the moment plugged in. A standing banner on the prime provides you the numbers at a look, so if a stick has come unfastened or an app misplaced its connection, you see it the second you open the web page as a substitute of looking by logs.

This rounds out the trio deliberate in an Open House Basis roadmap alternative: serial, infrared, and radio frequency all have their very own place in Settings now. Documentation for all three remains to be on its means.

Due to @puddly, who constructed this finish to finish, panel and all!

MQTT bought a settings web page of its personal this launch too, sitting proper alongside Serial and Bluetooth in Connectivity as a substitute of hiding its instruments behind the mixing’s choices. A standing banner on the prime exhibits whether or not the dealer is on-line and what number of gadgets it’s discovered, with fast hyperlinks to the gadgets and entities in your community. Discovery choices and the dealer connection settings every get their very own row as a substitute of sharing one choices move, and a brand new Publish a packet instrument helps you to ship a check message, matter, QoS, and retain flag included, straight from the web page, with a code editor for the payload. The subject subscribe view additionally now codecs incoming messages as code, with a replica button. Thanks, @jbouwh!

How full is your community storage?

The Storage web page in Settings has all the time proven which community shares you may have linked, like a NAS for backupsHouse Assistant has built-in performance to create information containing a replica of your configuration. This can be utilized to revive your House Assistant in addition to migrate to a brand new system. The backup characteristic is offered for all set up sorts. [Learn more] or media, however not how full each really was, so there was no early warning earlier than one quietly ran out of room.

Every energetic mount now will get a small utilization bar and a “{used} of {whole} used” line. Rows seem instantly, and every bar fills in as quickly as its personal request comes again, so one gradual or unreachable share by no means holds up the remainder of the checklist. The bar additionally modifications shade because it fills, amber previous 85% used and crimson previous 95%, so that you get a heads-up earlier than you really run out of house. A mount that’s at the moment unreachable simply exhibits no utilization bar; it already will get its personal warning therapy.

Due to @MindFreeze and @silamon for maintaining a tally of this!

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Backward-incompatible modifications

In case you are a customized integration developer and wish to find out about modifications and new options obtainable in your integration: Remember 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 will discover an inventory of all modifications made right here: Full changelog for House Assistant Core 2026.9.