2025.2 is here with a bunch of new updates to the backups feature, and the Home Assistant voice assistant gets some long awaited new skills. Meanwhile Rohan and Phil discuss a new office occupancy sensor from Logitech, and an issue with HACS
New Features
- New Backup Features
- Voice
- Model Context Protocol
- Shelly BLU TRV
- Home Wizard Plug-in Battery
- New front-end graph library
Shouldn’t notice any changes yet, but bigger changes coming for the future - Bluetooth Config Panel
You can now see information about your connected Bluetooth devices.
Advertisement monitor allows you to see all the devices and their RSSI that each Bluetooth Proxy can see.
Connection slot allocations monitor
Allows you to see how many allocations are being used by each proxy
New Integrations
- Homee
Integrate your Homee smart home system into Home Assistant. - igloohome
Monitor the battery levels of your iclooco smart access devices. They have smart deadbolts, keyboxes, and padlocks. - LetPot
Monitor your LetPot indoor garden. You can see and control the times the light turns on/off.
Backward-incompatible Changes
- EcoVacs
The attributes on the vacuum entity for the lifespan of the main brush, side brush, and filter have been deprecated and are now removed in 2025.2. These attributes are superseded by dedicated sensor entities. - Python 3.12 Support
Has been dropped
