Voice goes bilingual with Home Assistant 2025.10

New Features

• Automation Editor Updates
  There’s several new updates to the automation editor UI, including the ability to resize the sidebar, copy and paste action items using keyboard shortcuts and an undo/redo ability.
  
• AI Image Generation
  We’ve seen some people using LLM’s to describe what is happening in a snapshot.
  
  Now Home Assistant has the ability to have AI generate an image based on what it sees. For example you can have the AI convert your doorbell feed into a cartoon version
  
• Dashboards can now suggest entities
  Dashboards can now have a list of suggested entities, which are based on entities you have interacted with over the previous 24 hours.
  
• Voice goes bi-lingual
  You can now define 2 wake words and two assistants for every voice assistant in your home! This makes it straightforward to support dual language households by assigning different wake words to different languages. For example, “Okay Nabu” could be used for French while “Hey Jarvis” is used for English.
  
  Multiple wake words and assistants can be used for other purposes as well. Want to keep your local and cloud-based voice assistants separate? Easy! “Okay Nabu” could be used for a cloud-based assistant while “Hey Jarvis” is used for local one.
  
• Reducing Voice Feedback
  After a voice command, Assist responds with a short confirmation like “Turned on the lights” or “Brightness set”. This lets you know that it understood your command and took the appropriate actions. If you’re in the same room as the voice assistant, however, this confirmation is redundant; you can see or hear that appropriate actions were taken.
  
  Starting with this release, Assist will detect if the voice command’s actions all took place within the same area as the satellite device. If so, a short confirmation “beep” will be played instead of the full verbal response. Besides being less verbose, this also serves as a reminder that your voice command only affected the current area.
  
• New Media Player More Info Panel
  The design for the more information dialogs for media players has been revamped to provide a cleaner and more intuitive interface.
  
• Matter
  Now has occupancy sensing hold time, climate running state for heat/cool fans, vacuum area service actions, and thermostat outdoor temperature sensors!
  
• Logbook
  Has now been renamed to Activity
  
• Philips Hue
  Philips Hue expanded with support for MotionAware sensors on the new Hue Bridge Pro!
  
• LG
  LG added support to the LG ThinQ integration to now provide energy usage sensors for better energy monitoring for your devices! Nice!
  
• Litter Robot
  Litter-Robot got several enhancements: last feeding sensors, food dispensed today tracking, next feeding sensors, gravity mode switch, and globe light settings for Litter-Robot 4!
  
• AccuWeather
  now provides hourly forecasts, giving you more detailed weather predictions throughout the day!
  
• Reolink
  Cameras got several new features: encoding select entity, Home Hub siren support, and colour temperature support for light entities!
  
• Lutron Caseta
  Now supports multi-tap actions for more advanced button control!
  
• Shelly
  Received massive updates: illuminance sensor for Plug US Gen4, presence component entities, virtual buttons support, object-based entities, presence zone component support, and cable unplugged sensor for Flood Gen4!
  
• Switchbot
  Expanded device support with Plug Mini EU, RelaySwitch 2PM, and K11+ Vacuum!
  
• Tasmota
  Now supports camera functionality!
  
• Tuya
  So many updates!
  
• Workday
  The Workday integration now has a calendar that you can view from the calendar sidebar!
  
  

New Integrations

• Compit
  The Compit integration allows you to integrate air conditioning, ventilation, and heating controllers with Home Assistant.
  
• Droplet
  Leveraging cutting-edge ultrasonic sensing technology, Droplet accurately monitor water usage.
  
• Ekey Bionyx
  Integrate your Ekey biometric access control systems to monitor door access and security events in your smart home
  
• IRM KMI
  Get accurate weather data from Belgium’s Royal Meteorological Institute (IRM-KMI) for precise local forecasting
  
• Libre Hardware Monitor
  Monitor your computer’s hardware sensors including CPU temperature, GPU usage, fan speeds, and system performance metrics.
  
• Portainer
  Manage and monitor your Docker, keeping track of the status of your running containers
  
• SFTP
  Set up secure remote backup locations using SFTP/SSH protocols for your Home Assistant backups and data storage.
  
• Victron Remote Monitoring
  The Victron Remote Monitoring (VRM) integration pulls site statistics, solar production and consumption forecasts from Victron Energy’s VRM portal.
  

Links Discussed

• https://github.com/polamoros/home-assistant-cards
• https://github.com/t0mer/green-api-custom-notifier