Residence Assistant has introduced the discharge of model 2025.9, described as a “large” 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 have now centered on dashboards and their capabilities rather a lot. We have checked out a variety of your dashboards you’ve got shared on socials, and talked to lots of you about the way you arrange all of your sensible house units and companies,” explains Residence Assistant lead engineer Franck Nijhof of the brand new launch’s experimental dashboard. “The aim? 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 provide you quick access to the suitable info 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 machine summaries, the power to browse by space, and the introduction of “favorites” which permit any entity to be pinned on the high of the display.
“The Residence dashboard is not only about fast management,” Nijhof provides. “It additionally brings insights and details about your house. This primary launch contains climate and power playing cards. It is a easy begin, and we have now a variety 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 adjustments within the new launch embody 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 programs, ToGrill barbecue thermometers, and the Sleep as Android app, and a spread of bug fixes and enhancements — although the brand new launch additionally drops help for Uonet+ Vulcan integration, owing to licensing change.
A full checklist of the notable adjustments, together with a collection of breaking adjustments affecting 1-Wire, Alexa, Husqvarna, KNX, SIA, SwitchBot, and Yale August units, is accessible on the Residence Assistant weblog, together with hyperlinks to obtain the newest launch; the undertaking’s supply code is accessible, as at all times, on GitHub underneath the permissive Apache 2.0 license.
