Residence Assistant has introduced the discharge of model 2025.9, described as a “huge” replace to the favored residence automation platform — and the primary to introduce an experimental residence display dashboard, which is about to turn into the default in a future launch.
“Over the previous yr, we’ve got targeted on dashboards and their capabilities so much. We have checked out numerous your dashboards you’ve got shared on socials, and talked to lots of you about the way you set up all of your good residence gadgets and providers,” explains Residence Assistant lead engineer Franck Nijhof of the brand new launch’s experimental dashboard. “The purpose? Making dashboards quicker and simpler to create, whereas nonetheless making them very customizable. With this launch, we’re introducing a brand-new Residence dashboard. The aim is straightforward: to offer you quick access to the proper data on the proper time.”
The brand new dashboard is, Nijhof claims, designed to “adapt” to customers’ expertise ranges, offering the pliability required by energy customers with the simplicity desired by these new to the Residence Assistant platform. This preliminary launch contains fast navigation to gentle, local weather, safety, and media system summaries, the flexibility to browse by space, and the introduction of “favorites” which permit any entity to be pinned on the prime of the display.
“The Residence dashboard isn’t just about fast management,” Nijhof provides. “It additionally brings insights and details about your private home. This primary launch contains climate and power playing cards. It is a easy begin, and we’ve got numerous concepts to discover with you. For instance, serving to you create your first automation, or present found gadgets.”
The brand new launch additionally contains enhancements to the tile card, with bar and pattern graphs plus media and fan management choices. (📷: Residence Assistant)
Different adjustments within the new launch embrace the addition of a sidebar to the automation editor, to make it simpler to shortly regulate settings with out dropping sight of the overview, new tile card choices together with a bar gauge, a pattern chart that, in its preliminary launch, covers a 24-hour interval, media playback controls, fan controls, valve controls, and customizable buttons, new integrations for Genie Aladdin Join storage doorways, SEKO PoolDose water remedy techniques, ToGrill barbecue thermometers, and the Sleep as Android app, and a spread of bug fixes and enhancements — although the brand new launch additionally drops assist for Uonet+ Vulcan integration, owing to licensing change.
A full checklist of the notable adjustments, together with a choice of breaking adjustments affecting 1-Wire, Alexa, Husqvarna, KNX, SIA, SwitchBot, and Yale August gadgets, is offered on the Residence Assistant weblog, together with hyperlinks to obtain the most recent launch; the mission’s supply code is offered, as at all times, on GitHub below the permissive Apache 2.0 license.