Home Assistant 2025.7 has a question for you

Headlines

• Home Assistant Voice Chapter 10
  There’s been a tonne of improvements made to voice control with Home Assistant, including

New Features

• Ask a question!
  Home Assistant can now ask you a question, and allow you to answer to take an action
  
• Redesigned Area Card
  Area card has now been completely redesigned with a look and feel similar to the Tile card. It integrates seamlessly into Sections thanks to its flexible layouts. You can choose between a compact version that shows only an icon and the area name, or a more detailed view featuring elements like your camera feed and buttons to toggle your lights or fans.
  
• New Zwave Wizard
  
  
• Areas Dashboard Overview
  This release introduces an all-new overview that leverages the redesigned Area card, making it easy to view and control your main devices by room with a single click. It also acts as a navigation hub, giving you quick access to detailed views of each area
  
• Integration sub-entities
  This allows you to add a sub entry to an existing integration entry. This means, for example, that your integration entry has your credentials, and all the sub entries use these credentials. In the sub entry, you can then configure what should be done with these credentials, such as fetching a specific calendar, adding 3 AI agents with different prompts using the same OpenAI account, or in the case of MQTT, configuring devices that are connected to your broker.
  
  The following integrations now support sub entries as of this release: Anthropic, Google Generative AI, MQTT, Ollama, OpenAI Conversation, and Telegram Bot.
  
• Integration Page Overhaul
  The integration page got a big overhaul! It now has support for sub entries, allowing you to easily add a sub entry to an integration entry and see which devices and services belong to which sub entry.
  
  It now also shows the devices and services that are provided by that configuration entry.
  
• Shopping Lists now have complete intent functions, allowing you to mark off items from your shopping list using voice
  
• Devices and Entities
  Home Assistant will restore customisations you made to devices and entities that were previously deleted.
  
• Full Screen code editor
  Whether you’re editing automations, scripts, templates, or any other YAML configuration, you can now expand the code editor to take up your entire screen. This is especially helpful when working with longer configurations or when you need more space to see your code clearly.
  
• Wind Direction
  Wind direction sensors added range icons for the wind_direction sensor device class. Different icons are now shown depending on the state of wind direction sensors
  
• Reolink
  New features have been added! include IR brightness control, baby cry sensitivity adjustment, privacy mask switches, and full support for both PoE and WiFi floodlights
  
• Ollama
  A new config option allowing you to config the “think” parameter
  
• Google Generative AI
  Now defaults to the newer, faster Gemini 2.5 Flash model.
  
• Samsung
  For Samsung Refrigerators, there is now sensors for water filter replacement and usage, and control for ice
  
• Amazon Echo Devices
  Now have more sensors!
  
• Matter
  Dishwasher alarm support, and battery storage capabilities
  
  

New Integrations

• Altruist
  Connect to your Altruist account to monitor your charitable giving and impact.
  
• Playstation Network
  Integrate with the PlayStation Network to track your currently playing games and display game information on your dashboard.
  
• Tilt Pi
  Monitor your Tilt Pi hydrometer for brewing temperature and specific gravity measurements during your brewing process.
  
• VegeHub
  Connect to your VegeHub system to monitor and control your hydroponic garden and growing conditions.
  

Breaking Changes

• ZwaveJS Version Bump
  
• Google Calendar
  The previously deprecated Google Calendar add_event action has been removed and replaced by the create_event entity-based action.
  
• Miele
  The internal representation of states for hob plates has changed. This is a breaking change when these states are used in automations or templates.
  
• Plex Media Server
  The previously deprecated plex.scan_for_clients action has been removed in favor of the “Scan Clients” button entity. If you use this action in your automations or scripts, you will need to update them to use the new entity instead.
  

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