Residence Assistant has introduced the discharge of model 2025.9, described as a “huge” replace to the favored house automation platform — and the primary to introduce an experimental house display dashboard, which is ready to change into the default in a future launch.
“Over the previous yr, we now have targeted on dashboards and their capabilities rather a lot. We have checked out quite a lot of your dashboards you have shared on socials, and talked to a lot of you about the way you arrange all of your good house units 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 easy: to offer you quick access to the correct info on the proper time.”
The brand new dashboard is, Nijhof claims, designed to “adapt” to customers’ expertise ranges, offering the flexibleness required by energy customers with the simplicity desired by these new to the Residence Assistant platform. This preliminary launch contains fast navigation to mild, local weather, safety, and media machine summaries, the power 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 own home. This primary launch contains climate and power playing cards. It is a easy begin, and we now have quite a lot of concepts to discover with you. For instance, serving to you create your first automation, or present found units.”
The brand new launch additionally contains enhancements to the tile card, with bar and development graphs plus media and fan management choices. (📷: Residence Assistant)
Different modifications within the new launch embrace the addition of a sidebar to the automation editor, to make it simpler to shortly modify settings with out shedding sight of the overview, new tile card choices together with a bar gauge, a development 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 methods, ToGrill barbecue thermometers, and the Sleep as Android app, and a variety 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 modifications, together with a number of breaking modifications affecting 1-Wire, Alexa, Husqvarna, KNX, SIA, SwitchBot, and Yale August units, is obtainable on the Residence Assistant weblog, together with hyperlinks to obtain the newest launch; the undertaking’s supply code is obtainable, as at all times, on GitHub below the permissive Apache 2.0 license.