2026.10: You’re right here 📍

Residence Assistant 2026.10! 🎉

Final week, Nabu Casa dropped: Massive Tech ruined the cloud, so we’re renaming ours. Residence Assistant Cloud is on its approach to changing into Residence Assistant Hyperlink. Similar service, new title. I like that title, by the way in which. For those who haven’t learn the story behind it but, go take a look, and tell us what you think. The change is deliberate for the December launch, so there’s nonetheless time. 🏎️

Now, I’ll allow you to in on a secret: I’m an automation particular person. Dashboards are pretty and I love everybody who builds a reasonably one, however for me, automationsAutomations in Residence Assistant mean you can mechanically reply to issues that occur in and round your property. [Learn more] are what make a wise house truly sensible. So you may think about how completely happy I’m with what’s on this launch. Some of the highly effective options you by no means thought you’d want has been sitting in Residence Assistant for years: set off IDs. Give your triggersA set off is the a part of an automation that makes the automation begin when one thing particular occurs, for instance, when the solar units, a door opens, or a button is pressed. [Learn more] an ID, and one automation can do the job of two, three, or 5. It was additionally tucked away in a menu, you needed to invent the IDs your self, after which bear in mind which was which. Loads of you by no means discovered it, and that’s on us.

Not anymore. Trigger IDs finally get a proper UI: you verify the triggers you need within the situation, and Residence Assistant takes care of the IDs behind the scenes. And in case you like writing your personal IDs in YAMLYAML is a human-readable information serialization language. It’s used to retailer and transmit information in a structured format. In Residence Assistant, YAML is used for configuration, for instance within the configuration.yaml or automations.yaml information. [Learn more], nothing modifications. These maintain working precisely as earlier than. That makes it my favourite of this launch. 🧠

Don’t get me incorrect, the map is totally a cool characteristic too. Final launch, each map in Residence Assistant broke in a single day when our map supplier wished an API key. We moved to OpenStreetMap, and it seems that swapping out the map opens a number of doorways: a vector map that stays sharp at every zoom level, redesigned markers, and an summary of the place everybody has been. You’re right here. 📍

There’s extra: a tidier profile page, a panel for your Modbus connections, connecting your AI in one click, and 15 new integrationsIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant along with your gadgets, providers, and extra. [Learn more]! 🚀

Benefit from the launch!

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An enormous thanks to all of the contributors who made this launch potential! And a particular shout-out to @googanhiem and @piitaya who helped write these launch notes. Additionally, @grischard, @moryoav, and @RaHehl for placing effort into tweaking its contents. Due to them, these launch notes are in nice form. ❤️

Cloud turns into Hyperlink

In case you missed it, we’re making the move to rename Home Assistant Cloud to Home Assistant Link. Same service, new name.

The best link is a fast link. 🏎️ Nabu Casa has been onerous at work making distant entry even sooner throughout the globe. They lately migrated all of their servers to bare metal and added extra servers to spice up their protection of the world. This month, they added a latency checker that pings a number of servers on boot and picks the perfect connection for you.

A complete new map

Last release, something changed underneath every map in Home Assistant, and we barely mentioned it in the release notes. The map provider we relied on started stamping an “API key required” message across its map images, breaking every map in Home Assistant at once. Instead of hunting for another free tile provider, we switched from pre-rendered map images to vector tiles generated and served by the OpenStreetMap Foundation. Both maps use OpenStreetMap information, however your machine now attracts the map itself. The brand new Map tiles integration fetches and caches the tiles via your Residence Assistant occasion, so your browser doesn’t contact exterior tile servers straight. Not too long ago considered elements of the map stay out there via a brief web hiccup.

Guillaume Rischard (@grischard), the previous chair of the OpenStreetMap Basis who initiated and led its vector-tile initiative, joined us through the 2026.9 release party.

Swapping out the map beneath opened a number of doorways. This launch walks via the primary few.

Crisp at each zoom degree

The map is drawn totally in your machine, as vectors, as an alternative of being stitched collectively from photos. Streets and labels keep sharp at any zoom degree, and zooming out and in is clean. The map additionally has a devoted darkish model, with colours designed for darkish mode. Older gadgets that may’t render vector maps, just like the outdated pill in your wall, mechanically fall again to the basic map.

Redesigned markers

The markers on the map got a complete redesign. People show up with their picture, zonesZones allow you to specify certain regions on a map. They enable zone presence-detection and can be used in automations. For example, to start the vacuum after you left home or start the heating at home when you leave the office. [Learn more] get a marker with their icon in their own color, and everyone in the same zone shares a single bubble on that zone, instead of a pile of markers stacked on top of each other. Zoom out far enough, and bubbles that would overlap merge into one.

The Map dashboard now comes with an overview, next to the map on a desktop and as a sheet you pull up on your phone. It has three tabs: People, Devices, and Zones. Select someone to see their recent activity, with each stop colored by the zone they were in. Select a zone to see who’s there. On a phone, the map now also fills the whole screen, edge to edge.

Zones on the new map

The zone editor in Settings > Areas, labels & zones now makes use of the identical new map. Your zones are sorted alphabetically, with Residence at all times on the prime, and so they present the identical icons and colours you see on the map.

The redesign follows an Open Home Foundation design concept for the Map dashboard.

Due to @maartenla, @matthiasdebaat, @bramkragten, and @bgoncal; @grischard for initiating vector maps on the OpenStreetMap aspect and for aiding us; and Paul Norman (@pnorman) for growing Tilekiln and the tile service. Thanks additionally to the OpenStreetMap Foundation and the MapLibre, Shortbread, and VersaTiles communities.

Like Residence Assistant, OpenStreetMap is constructed within the open by individuals such as you. Spot one thing in your neighborhood that’s lacking or outdated? You’ll be able to leave a note or edit the map yourself.

A tidier profile web page

Select your name at the bottom of the sidebar, and you land on your User profile. Over time, that web page quietly changed into a little bit of a junk drawer. Language, theme, date codecs, sidebar order, push notifications, keyboard shortcuts: all stacked in a single lengthy Basic tab, with Safety as its solely neighbor. Every part was there. You simply needed to scroll previous most of it to search out the one factor you got here for.

The profile web page is now an summary, utilizing the identical type of navigation you already know from Settings. On the prime is a card along with your account, adopted by your Theme, and a brief record of sections that every maintain a handful of associated settings:

• Look: Your default dashboard and the order of your sidebar
• Localization: Your language, time zone, and the way dates, occasions, and numbers are proven
• This browser (or This cell app within the companion app): Notifications, show, and shortcuts for the machine you’re utilizing proper now
• Safety: Your password, multi-factor authentication, and entry tokens

Nothing was taken away. Each setting continues to be there, simply grouped so it’s simpler to search out. Thanks, @pcan08 and @maartenla!

That account card on the prime discovered a brand new trick, too. Till now, your personal title and movie weren’t truly yours to alter. Solely an administrator may set them, tucked away within the particular person settings. Not an administrator, however you wished a nicer image of your self within the sidebar? You needed to go ask whoever runs your Residence Assistant. A bit odd, for one thing that’s actually your face.

Each consumer, administrator or not, now has an Edit profile button proper subsequent to Log off. Add and crop an image, change your title, and save. Your title is used for each your consumer and the particular person linked to it, so it’s the identical in every single place you present up, from the sidebar to your dashboards and Help. Your new image exhibits up within the sidebar immediately.

One of the best automation characteristic you by no means used

Check out your automationsAutomations in Residence Assistant mean you can mechanically reply to issues that occur in and round your property. [Learn more], and chances are you’ll find a few that come in pairs. One turns the hallway light on when motion is detected, the other turns it off again when the motion stops. One sends a notification when the washing machine starts, the other when it’s done. Two automations, doing one job.

This completes an Open Home Foundation roadmap opportunity to make referencing triggers in automations rather a lot simpler. Thanks, @jpbede, @wendevlin, @marcinbauer-ohf, and @nielsrowinbik!

When you’re within the automation editor, you’ll discover your triggersA set off is the a part of an automation that makes the automation begin when one thing particular occurs, for instance, when the solar units, a door opens, or a button is pressed. [Learn more], circumstancesCircumstances verify whether or not one thing is true at that second, for instance, whether or not a door is closed. You need to use them in automations and scripts. If a situation shouldn’t be met, the actions that come after it in the identical sequence don’t run. On the prime degree of an automation or script, this stops the automation or script. [Learn more], and actionsAn motion makes Residence Assistant do one thing, for instance, activate a lightweight, ship a notification, or activate a scene. Automations and scripts run an inventory of actions. [Learn more] let you know a bit extra at a look. Every row now exhibits the small print that was once hidden till you opened it: the brink a set off or situation checks for, like “above 10 °C”, how lengthy one thing wants to remain that manner, the offset on a dawn or sundown, and the way lengthy a wait motion waits earlier than it provides up. Thanks, @wendevlin and @MindFreeze!

Integrations

Due to our neighborhood for retaining tempo with the brand new integrationsIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant along with your gadgets, providers, and extra. [Learn more] and improvements to existing ones! You’re all awesome 🥰

• Axle Energy, added by @Herbertmt978
  Convey the grid occasion schedule of your Axle Energy account into Residence Assistant. It tells you whether or not an upcoming occasion asks you to import from or export to the grid, and precisely when it begins and ends, so your automationsAutomations in Residence Assistant mean you can mechanically reply to issues that occur in and round your property. [Learn more] can get your property prepared in time.

• Bitvis Energy Hub, added by @MandusBorjesson
  Learn real-time electrical energy information out of your sensible meter utilizing a Bitvis Power Hub, which plugs into the meter’s HAN port. The Energy Hub pushes its measurements, like energy, voltage, and present per section, straight to Residence Assistant over your native community. No cloud, no pollingKnowledge 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 ceaselessly your system checks for brand spanking new information, which may also help optimize efficiency and cut back pointless community visitors. [Learn more].

• Gree Infrared, added by @Dr-Blank, launching at 🥈 silver high quality
  Management a Gree air conditioner utilizing any infrared transmitter you have already got arrange in Residence Assistant, like an ESPHome machine with an infrared LED. Add an infrared receiver, and the local weatherThe Local weather entity lets you management and monitor HVAC (heating, ventilating, and air con) gadgets and thermostats. [Learn more] entity follows alongside when somebody makes use of the bodily Gree distant. Gree builds air conditioners for a lot of manufacturers, so items bought as Onida, Sinclair, and others work as effectively.

• INDI Allsky, added by @TN-1
  Join your INDI Allsky digicam server, an allsky digicam system for astrophotography and keeping track of cloud cowl. You get the newest seize as a digicam, plus sensors for sky high quality, the variety of stars detected, publicity time, and whether or not it’s evening.

• KACO Modbus, added by @g4bri3lDev
  Join a KACO new energy photo voltaic inverter straight over your native community utilizing Modbus TCP. It exhibits what the inverter is producing proper now, its lifetime vitality counter for the Power dashboard, and what it’s doing, with none cloud account or producer portal concerned.

• my-PV, added by @rrooggiieerr
  Management my-PV gadgets, just like the AC•THOR vary and AC ELWA 2, which flip your surplus solar energy into sizzling water. Residence Assistant talks to them regionally and discovers them in your community mechanically.

• OSRAM Infrared, added by @freeDom-, launching at 🥈 silver high quality
  Management OSRAM and LEDVANCE RGB lights that include a 24-button infrared distant, utilizing an infrared transmitter arrange in Residence Assistant. With an infrared receiver, the mildA light-weight has a brightness you may management, and optionally shade temperature or RGB shade management. [Learn more] entity additionally picks up instructions from the bodily distant.

• Persang Infrared, added by @Dr-Blank
  Management a Persang Bluetooth speaker utilizing an infrared transmitter arrange in Residence Assistant, supplying you with a media participant and buttons for its distant capabilities.

• SolarEdge Modbus, added by @frenck, launching at 🏆 platinum high quality
  Connect with your SolarEdge photo voltaic inverter over your personal community, utilizing the Modbus TCP interface constructed into the inverter. No account, no API key, no cloud. Readings arrive each few seconds as an alternative of each couple of minutes, and maintain arriving when your web connection is down. You may also change the export restrict and the way your battery costs.

• Sunsynk, added by @jamesridgway
  Convey your Sunsynk hybrid photo voltaic inverter and battery into Residence Assistant utilizing your Sunsynk Join account. You get sensors for photo voltaic manufacturing, grid import and export, and your battery. Residence Assistant may even uncover the Sunsynk information logger in your community.

• Theben Conexa Sensible Meter Gateway, added by @mdluhosch
  Learn your meter information regionally from a Theben Conexa 3.0 sensible meter gateway, utilizing its built-in Residence Space Community (HAN) interface. No cloud wanted.

• Threema, added by @LukasQ
  Ship end-to-end encrypted messages out of your automationsAutomations in Residence Assistant mean you can mechanically reply to issues that occur in and round your property. [Learn more] to individuals on Threema, the privacy-focused messenger that doesn’t want a cellphone quantity. It makes use of the Threema Gateway service, and every particular person you add as a recipient will get their very own notify entity.

• Vitesy, added by @chemelli74
  Join the Vitesy Shelfy, an air air purifier that lives in your fridge. See the air high quality and temperature inside your fridge, how typically the door was opened, and when the filter wants cleansing or changing. You’ll be able to even change the air purifier mode, for instance to spice up it after a grocery run.

• Willow, added by @PaxPrz
  Control the well being of your indoor vegetation with Willow sensors. Temperature, humidity, soil moisture, and light-weight ranges come from the Willow cloud into Residence Assistant, prepared in your dashboards and automationsAutomations in Residence Assistant mean you can mechanically reply to issues that occur in and round your property. [Learn more]. Your vegetation can’t let you know they’re thirsty, however now Residence Assistant can.

• Zonneplan, added by @erwindouna
  Get the electrical energy and fuel costs of your Zonneplan contract, a Dutch supplier of dynamic vitality contracts. Useful for working your home equipment when vitality is most cost-effective.

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

• Austroflamm, offered by Fumis, added by @frenck
• EcoSpar, offered by Fumis, added by @frenck
• HAAS+SOHN, offered by Fumis, added by @frenck
• HETA, offered by Fumis, added by @frenck
• O Basic, offered by FGLair, added by @Dr-Blank
• Onida Infrared, offered by Gree Infrared, added by @Dr-Blank
• Steinway & Lyngdorf, offered by Lyngdorf, added by @fishloa

Noteworthy enhancements to current integrations

It isn’t simply new integrationsIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant along with your gadgets, providers, and extra. [Learn more] that have been added; existing ones keep getting better too. Here are some of the noteworthy improvements this release:

• Matter added switchesSwitches are things that have two states you can select between, such as turning on or off a socket. [Learn more] to turn the visual and audible alarms of supported leak sensors on or off, like the IKEA KLIPPBOK, and a switch for one-touch locking, so you decide whether a single touch on the keypad of your lock is enough to lock the door. DevicesA device is a model representing a physical or logical unit that contains entities. that measure electrical power now also report the frequency and power factor. Thanks, @wardmatter, @mmmspatz, and @lboue!
• Tuya helps much more gadgetsA tool is a mannequin representing a bodily or logical unit that accommodates entities. this launch: two-channel DIN rail vitality meters with readings per channel, circuit breakers, EV chargers (with their charging present, charging mode, and session vitality), water valves (with water utilization and temperature), and the keypad tone and alarm push settings of the Duosmart C30 alarm panel. Three-phase electrical energy meters now additionally report reactive energy, obvious energy, and energy issue for every section. Thanks, @keranm, @tmunzer, @o-borovets, @syl-craft, @ChayoteJarocho, @huangrenwei79, and @epenet!
• Web Printing Protocol (IPP) added web page counters, so you may maintain monitor of what number of pages, impressions, and sheets your printer has gone via, break up into shade and black and white on printers that report it. Thanks, @brianegge!
• ESPHome gadgetsA tool is a mannequin representing a bodily or logical unit that accommodates entities. can now open the connection to Residence Assistant themselves, in order that they work even when Residence Assistant can’t attain them straight. Activate the outgoing_connection possibility in your ESPHome machine, and Residence Assistant takes it from there, with the identical encryption as at all times. Thanks, @bdraco!
• HomeKit Bridge can now present your valve entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or operate in Residence Assistant. Entities are used to observe bodily properties or to manage different entities. An entity is normally a part of a tool or a service. [Learn more] within the Residence app as a faucet, bathe head, or sprinkler. How lengthy a valve runs can now additionally come from any quantity entity, not only a quantity helperA helper is a digital entity you create inside Residence Assistant. It isn’t backed by a bodily machine. Helpers retailer values, monitor state, or do calculations that your automations and dashboards want. [Learn more]. Thanks, @louwii17!
• Philips Hue added a change to show every MotionAware zone on or off, identical to you may within the Hue app. Rooms and zones additionally gained a sceneScenes seize the states you need sure entities to be. For instance, a scene can specify that mild A must be turned on and light-weight B must be shiny purple. [Learn more] choose, exhibiting which scene (or sensible scene) is at the moment lively, and letting you decide one other one. Thanks, @marcelveldt and @sliekens!
• Reolink can now management the pan and tilt lens of cameras that mix a number of lenses in a single machine, when related to a Reolink NVR or Residence Hub. Thanks, @starkillerOG!
• Music Assistant bulletins can now communicate a message, not solely play an audio file. The announcement motion takes a message and a “text-to-speech”TTS (text-to-speech) permits Residence Assistant to speak to you. [Learn more] entity to talk it, whereas retaining the pre-announcement chime and announcement quantity that tts.communicate doesn’t provide. The AI search software can now additionally search inside artists, albums, and playlists. Thanks, @marcelveldt and @balloob!
• Roborock moist and dry vacuums now replace in actual time, so docking or beginning a cleansing exhibits up in Residence Assistant immediately. The Roborock Q10 can now additionally clear particular zones, drive to a spot you decide, and report the place it’s. Thanks, @piitaya and @hmmbob!
• Z-Wave added three new circumstancesCircumstances verify whether or not one thing is true at that second, for instance, whether or not a door is closed. You need to use them in automations and scripts. If a situation shouldn’t be met, the actions that come after it in the identical sequence don’t run. On the prime degree of an automation or script, this stops the automation or script. [Learn more] to the automation editor, with correct fields to fill in: verify a tool’s node standing, the worth of a configuration parameter, or another Z-Wave worth. Z-Wave triggersA set off is the a part of an automation that makes the automation begin when one thing particular occurs, for instance, when the solar units, a door opens, or a button is pressed. [Learn more] obtained the identical remedy. Thanks, @raman325!
• UniFi Community now experiences the battery degree and runtime of your UniFi UPS, together with its output energy, present, voltage, and energy issue. Thanks, @jimstrang!
• Broadlink now helps the RM5 Plus, which used to fail with a “machine not supported” error. Thanks, @DAB-LABS!
• UniFi Defend now helps the important thing fob, with an occasion entityAn occasion entity represents a momentary incidence with out a lasting state, for instance, if you press a doorbell or a button on a distant management. As a substitute of a state similar to on or off, the occasion entity retains monitor of when the final occasion was detected and its occasion kind, similar to a single press or a protracted press. [Learn more] that fires on each button press, and exhibits every relay enter as its personal binary sensorA binary sensor is an entity that experiences one among two mutually unique states, on or off. The machine class determines how these states are labeled within the UI. For instance, open/closed for a door or detected/clear for movement. [Learn more]. The API key solely mode now additionally handles movement and sensible detections, sensible sensors, sirens, relays, and a number of other digicam and floodlight settings. Thanks, @sbesh91, @igoraugustynski, and @RaHehl!
• OpenAI added help for the GPT-6 Astra and GPT-Picture-2.5 fashions. GPT-Picture-2.5 Flare is now the default for producing photos with AI Activity. Thanks, @Shulyaka!
• SwitchBot Bluetooth added help for the Lock Extremely Max, the Common Distant, and the RGBICWW Mild Bars, and allows you to set how briskly your SwitchBot curtains transfer. Thanks, @Onero-testdev and @joostlek!
• SwitchBot Cloud added help for the Lock Extremely Max. Thanks, @XiaoLing-git!
• LIFX now helps LIFX lights that join over ThreadThread is a low-power mesh networking commonplace that’s particularly designed for sensible house purposes. It’s a protocol that defines how gadgets talk. [Learn more], and the sign energy sensor works for these lights too. Thanks, @Djelibeybi!
• Proxmox VE added “replace entities”An replace entity is an entity that signifies if an replace is offered for a tool or service. [Learn more] in your Proxmox nodes, exhibiting when updates can be found and what number of Proxmox and different packages are ready. Putting in them from Residence Assistant shouldn’t be potential but. Thanks, @CoMPaTech!
• LinkPlay audio system that observe one other speaker in a multiroom group now present the title, artist, album, and album artwork of what’s taking part in. Every speaker retains its personal quantity. Thanks, @MagicMicky!
• Apple iCloud brings your iCloud calendars and Reminders into Residence Assistant. Every calendar exhibits up as a calendar entityA calendar entity represents a schedule of occasions coming from a neighborhood or exterior calendar supply. It may be used to set off automations primarily based on the beginning or finish of an occasion, react to offsets (like quarter-hour earlier than), or retrieve occasion particulars via providers. [Learn more], and every Reminders record as a to-do record, the place you may add, full, and take away objects that sync proper again to your Apple gadgets. Thanks, @FezVrasta!
• Hikvision added “occasion entities”An occasion entity represents a momentary incidence with out a lasting state, for instance, if you press a doorbell or a button on a distant management. As a substitute of a state similar to on or off, the occasion entity retains monitor of when the final occasion was detected and its occasion kind, similar to a single press or a protracted press. [Learn more] that let you know what triggered a wise occasion: a human, a car, or a pet. Nice for getting notified about individuals at your gate, whereas ignoring passing visitors. Thanks, @ptarjan!
• Opower now makes use of the import and export readings out of your meter itself in your grid statistics. Earlier than, grid import was labored out out of your internet utilization, which undercounted it for houses with photo voltaic panels, and will even present no import in any respect on a sunny day. Thanks, @tronikos!
• TP-Hyperlink Omada now exhibits your Omada controller as a machineA tool is a mannequin representing a bodily or logical unit that accommodates entities., with its standing and an “replace entity”An replace entity is an entity that signifies if an replace is offered for a tool or service. [Learn more] for its firmware. Thanks, @rubempoli!
• EnergyZero can now use quarter-hourly electrical energy costs, and added all-in electrical energy costs subsequent to the market costs. Thanks, @klaasnicolaas!
• Bosch SHC grew rather a lot this launch. Micromodule shutters, awnings, and blinds now present up as coversCovers are gadgets similar to blinds, storage doorways, and many others that may be opened and closed and optionally set to a selected place. [Learn more], and there are new switches for youngster locks, the alarm bypass of door and window contacts, the silent mode of thermostats, the intrusion alarm of the Smoke Detector II, and the settings of the Movement Detector 2, Door/Window Contact II Plus, Micromodule Relay, and Digicam Eyes. A brand new sensor counts the open doorways and home windows in your house, thermostats present their valve place, and movement detectors now hearth an occasion for each movement. Thanks, @mosandlt!
• Midea added water heaters, a lock change, a pump change for dehumidifiers, a sensor for when the water pump of an air conditioner is working, and salt, AI mode, time remaining, and door warning entities for the home equipment that help them. Thanks, @chemelli74, @rokam, @mattrossman, and @peterdey!
• Teslemetry can now management issues regionally: your Powerwall over your personal community, and your car over Bluetooth. Instructions attempt the native route first and fall again to the cloud, so they’re sooner, and car instructions even work when the automotive has no connection. Thanks, @Bre77!
• Peblar chargers can now set up firmware updates from Residence Assistant, and you’ll handle the RFID playing cards and the autocharge autos allowed to cost, and authorize a cost session, all from actionsAn motion makes Residence Assistant do one thing, for instance, activate a lightweight, ship a notification, or activate a scene. Automations and scripts run an inventory of actions. [Learn more]. Chargers with a buzzer or standing mild additionally get selects for the buzzer quantity and LED brightness. Thanks, @syphernl and @frenck!
• MELCloud Residence added the out of doors temperature and a change to place your unit in standby. Thanks, @erwindouna!
• Common Gadgets ISY/IoX added “occasion entities”An occasion entity represents a momentary incidence with out a lasting state, for instance, if you press a doorbell or a button on a distant management. As a substitute of a state similar to on or off, the occasion entity retains monitor of when the final occasion was detected and its occasion kind, similar to a single press or a protracted press. [Learn more] for Insteon buttons and keypads, so you may automate on a press, a double press, or a protracted press. Thanks, @shbatm!
• LG Infrared air conditioners gained swing modes, switches for the ion generator and auto clear, a choose for the vitality restrict, and buttons for options like Jet mode and Eco mode. Thanks, @Dr-Blank!
• Samsung Infrared now helps air conditioners. Thanks, @elax46!
• Weheat added the air outlet temperature, home sizzling water goal and management technique, the electrical energy utilized by the indoor unit, and what your warmth pump is doing whereas it cools. Thanks, @barryvdh!
• LED Infrared added help for generic 10-key LED candle remotes. Thanks, @tr4nt0r!
• Assortment picture gained actionsAn motion makes Residence Assistant do one thing, for instance, activate a lightweight, ship a notification, or activate a scene. Automations and scripts run an inventory of actions. [Learn more] to leap to the primary, final, subsequent, or earlier picture within the folder, alongside selecting a random one. Thanks, @karwosts!
• Homevolt added a choose to alter the battery mode, and controls for the facility setpoint and grid import and export limits. Thanks, @Danielhiversen!

Integration high quality scale achievements

One factor we’re extremely pleased with in Residence Assistant is our integration quality scale. This scale helps us and our contributors to ensure integrations are of high quality, maintainable, and provide the best possible user experience.

• 11 integrations reached platinum 🏆

  • Besen, thanks to @moryoav
  • Dropbox, because of @bdr99
  • easyEnergy, because of @klaasnicolaas
  • Google Assistant SDK, because of @tronikos
  • Lyngdorf, because of @fishloa
  • Monzo, because of @JakeMartin-ICL
  • NeoPool, because of @svasek
  • OpenEVSE, because of @c00w
  • Sofar, because of @darkrain-nl
  • TechnoVE, because of @Moustachauve
  • VIZIO SmartCast, because of @raman325

• 4 integrations reached gold 🥇

• 6 integrations reached silver 🥈

• 4 integrations reached bronze 🥉

It is a enormous achievement for these integrations and their maintainers. The trouble and dedication required to succeed in these high quality ranges is important, because it entails 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 out there to arrange from the UI

Whereas most integrationsIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant along with your gadgets, providers, and extra. [Learn more] can be set up directly from the Home Assistant user interface, some were only available using YAML configuration. We keep moving more integrations to the UI, making them more accessible for everyone to set up and use.

Time for a little cleaning, and no, we did not wait for spring! The following “integrations”Integrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] are no longer available as of this release:

• The Home dashboard now shows active alerts too. The alerts you set up for the Security dashboard last release, like a door left open or a smoke detector going off, now also show up right on your Home dashboard, so you don’t miss them. Thanks, @timmo001!
• Tile playing cards gained a slider characteristic for enter selects and choose entities, so you may slide between choices, in the identical model because the toggle for enter booleans. This was @Jump-333’s very first contribution to Residence Assistant. Thanks, and welcome!
• The Power dashboard now exhibits the discharge of every battery individually within the vitality utilization graph, identical to it already did for charging. Thanks, @MindFreeze!
• Calendar playing cards can present a button so as to add an occasion once more, so you may put one thing on the calendar proper out of your dashboard, and also you decide the place the button sits. Thanks, @Phil0L!
• Garden mower entities gained a cease motion and an idle state, so you may cancel a mower’s present job as an alternative of solely pausing it or sending it house. The automation editor has an identical set off and situation, too. MQTT garden mowers help it as effectively, and Husqvarna Automower and Husqvarna Automower BLE mowers already report when they’re idle. Thanks, @piitaya, @Thomas55555, and @alistair23!
• Binary sensor has a brand new glass break machine class. Glass break sensors are handled as safety sensors, in order that they present up on the Safety dashboard and in your house safety abstract. HomematicIP Cloud, SimpliSafe, Z-Wave, and Hive already use it. Thanks, @catellie!
• Template obtained two good additions this launch. Thanks, @Petro31!
  • Template entities can now be local weather entities, so you may construct your personal thermostat from different entities. Consider a warmth pump or air conditioner that an integration solely exposes as a free assortment of switches, sensors, and numbers. Create one as a helperA helper is a digital entity you create inside Residence Assistant. It isn’t backed by a bodily machine. Helpers retailer values, monitor state, or do calculations that your automations and dashboards want. [Learn more] from the UI, decide templatesA template is an automation definition that may embrace variables for the motion or information from the set off values. This enables automations to generate dynamic actions. [Learn more] for the present temperature, goal temperature, and HVAC mode, and select the actions that run if you change them. In YAMLYAML is a human-readable information serialization language. It’s used to retailer and transmit information in a structured format. In Residence Assistant, YAML is used for configuration, for instance within the configuration.yaml or automations.yaml information. [Learn more], you may take it additional with fan, preset, and swing modes, and humidity. The template local weather documentation has all the small print.
  • Binary sensor template helpers now allow you to set a delay earlier than they activate or off, proper from the UI. Till now, that was solely potential in YAMLYAML is a human-readable information serialization language. It’s used to retailer and transmit information in a structured format. In Residence Assistant, YAML is used for configuration, for instance within the configuration.yaml or automations.yaml information. [Learn more].
• Templates gained a timedelta_string operate, which turns a length into readable textual content like “1 hour half-hour”, the identical manner time_since and time_until do. Thanks, @cnotin!
• Automation traces obtained a recent look that matches the automation editor, with the actual icon for every set offA set off is the a part of an automation that makes the automation begin when one thing particular occurs, for instance, when the solar units, a door opens, or a button is pressed. [Learn more], situationCircumstances verify whether or not one thing is true at that second, for instance, whether or not a door is closed. You need to use them in automations and scripts. If a situation shouldn’t be met, the actions that come after it in the identical sequence don’t run. On the prime degree of an automation or script, this stops the automation or script. [Learn more], and motionAn motion makes Residence Assistant do one thing, for instance, activate a lightweight, ship a notification, or activate a scene. Automations and scripts run an inventory of actions. [Learn more], and a transparent view of branches that didn’t end. Drag the divider to offer the graph or the small print extra room, the step buttons now float on prime of the graph, and display readers describe every step. Thanks, @jpbede!
• The Z-Wave community map can now present the actual mesh. Activate the brand new neighbors toggle, and it attracts the connections between your gadgets, not simply the routes they use. It’s off by default, as a result of giant networks get busy quick. Thanks, @MindFreeze!
• Calendar occasions from CalDAV, Native calendar, and Google Calendar now embrace whether or not they’re confirmed or tentative, so your automationsAutomations in Residence Assistant mean you can mechanically reply to issues that occur in and round your property. [Learn more] can inform the distinction. Distant calendar now additionally leaves out canceled occasions. Thanks, @1358!
• Local weather fan modes can now be set by voice, via a dialog agent, like “set the fan mode to auto”. Thanks, @synesthesiam!
• Items continue to grow: atmospheres (atm) for stress, and therms (thm) for vitality, the unit many US utilities invoice pure fuel in. Climate entities can now additionally report stress in kilopascals (kPa), which most climate providers in Canada use. Thanks, @Bre77, @virtitnerd, and @RussellAult!
• Password managers, together with the one constructed into Firefox, can fill in your particulars on the Residence Assistant login web page once more. Thanks, @MindFreeze!
• On telephones with a notch or rounded corners, tables, filter bars, settings playing cards, headers, and pop-up messages now attain the perimeters of the display, whereas every thing you learn or faucet stays away from the cutout. Thanks, @bgoncal!
• Tables, like those itemizing your gadgetsA tool is a mannequin representing a bodily or logical unit that accommodates entities. and entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or operate in Residence Assistant. Entities are used to observe bodily properties or to manage different entities. An entity is normally a part of a tool or a service. [Learn more], now present placeholder rows whereas they load. And if one thing fails to load, you now see an error, as an alternative of an empty record that appears like you don’t have anything arrange. Thanks, @timmo001!
• YAML configuration errors now counsel what you most likely meant. Mistype command_topci, and the error asks: did you imply command_topic? Error messages additionally present the trail to the file relative to your configuration folder, so they’re simpler to learn. Thanks, @frenck and @emontnemery!

Present a card solely when it issues

Dashboards can show or hide a card, badge, or section based on conditionsConditions check whether something is true at that moment, for example, whether a door is closed. You can use them in automations and scripts. If a condition is not met, the actions that come after it in the same sequence do not run. At the top level of an automation or script, this stops the automation or script. [Learn more]: only on a phone, only for a certain user, only when the washing machine is running. Those conditions were always a smaller set than the ones you know from automations.

And no more guessing why a card is hiding. The top of the Visibility tab tells you whether the card is visible right now, and each condition shows whether it currently passes. Thanks, @MindFreeze and @timmo001!

A panel in your Modbus connections

Final launch, we began modernizing Modbus: integrations that already know how your device talks Modbus, so you pick your device in the UI instead of writing register maps by hand. Those integrations share a single connection to each device, which is great for devices that only accept a few connections at once. It also meant there was no single place to see which integrations were talking to what.

The new Modbus panel under Settings > Connectivity fixes that. It lists every Modbus connection Home Assistant has, serial ports and network gateways alike, along with the devicesA device is a model representing a physical or logical unit that contains entities. on it and the integrations using them. Connections set up in YAMLYAML is a human-readable data serialization language. It is used to store and transmit data in a structured format. In Home Assistant, YAML is used for configuration, for example in the configuration.yaml or automations.yaml files. [Learn more] show up here too. A connection that’s closed isn’t a problem, by the way. It opens again the next time an integration needs it. The Serial panel links straight to it for ports that carry Modbus. Thanks, @balloob!

The record of integrations constructed this fashion retains rising. This launch provides two new ones: SolarEdge Modbus, launching straight at platinum, and KACO Modbus, because of @g4bri3lDev. STIEBEL ELTRON now shares its connection via the Modbus integration as effectively, and Sofar climbed all the way in which to platinum, because of @darkrain-nl.

Join your AI in a single click on

Residence Assistant can act as a Model Context Protocol server, which lets AI apps like Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor talk to your home. Getting there was a bit of a hunt, though: add the integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more], pick which parts of Home Assistant to expose, and then figure out which URL to hand to your AI app.

And your AI got a lot better at finding music. Ask it to play something, and instead of blindly playing the first search result, it now gets a list of results and picks the best match. It can even search inside an artist, album, or playlist to find that one specific song. Search itself improved along the way: artists, albums, and playlists from Music Assistant can now be searched inside, identical to outcomes from Jellyfin and Squeezebox, native media now finds matching folders too, and Radio Browser places the 100 hottest stations first.

Thanks, @balloob!

If your property runs on KNX, your AI can now dig into that too. The KNX integration brings its personal set of AI instruments, which you’ll hand to your dialog agent, or to your AI app via the Mannequin Context Protocol server. Ask concerning the group addresses, gadgets, and capabilities in your ETS undertaking, undergo the historical past of telegrams in your bus, or decode a price you don’t acknowledge. It could actually even learn and write values on the bus straight. Thanks, @martinhoefling!

Title an entity after its machine

Some entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or operate in Residence Assistant. Entities are used to observe bodily properties or to manage different entities. An entity is normally a part of a tool or a service. [Learn more] are the whole point of their deviceA device is a model representing a physical or logical unit that contains entities.. Calling the smoke sensor of a smoke detector “Smoke detector Smoke detected” doesn’t help anyone. Integrations already give their main entity the name of the device, but if you wanted to do the same for another entity, there was no clean way to do it. If you cleared its name, it jumped right back to the name the integration gave it.

The entity settings now have a Use device name switch. Turn it on, and the entity goes by the name of its device. The switch also shows you what that device name is, with a link to rename the device if you’d like. Turn it off, and you’re back to the entity’s own name, filled in with the default from the integration. If you change your mind, a restore button takes you back to the default. Thanks, @piitaya and @matthiasdebaat!

Timers, one faucet away

Timer helpersA helper is a virtual entity you create inside Home Assistant. It is not backed by a physical device. Helpers store values, track state, or do calculations that your automations and dashboards need. [Learn more] are now a lot easier to control from your dashboard. Tile cards have two new features for them: Timer actions adds buttons to start, pause, and cancel a timer (and optionally finish it), and Timer presets starts a timer with a preset duration in a single tap. Presets show up as a row of buttons, or as a dropdown, handy for a longer list. You manage the presets from the timer itself: open its more info dialog and select Edit presets from the menu.

That more info dialog got a fresh look too, and when a timer finishes, you’ll see a small animation. Thanks, @maartenla!

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Backward-incompatible modifications

homeassistant:
  allowlist_external_dirs:
    - /media/telegram

If you’re a customized integration developer and wish to find out about modifications and new options out there in your integration: Make sure to observe our developer blog. The next modifications are essentially the most notable for this launch:

All modifications

In fact, there’s much more on this launch. You could find an inventory of all modifications made right here: Full changelog for Residence Assistant Core 2026.10.