2025 is here and Home Assistant is kicking it off with a new cloud-ready backup solution, and a bunch of updates that have been making peoples heads scratch for a while
New Features
- Automated Backups
3 Backups
2 Locations
1 Offsite
Setting up Backups starts an onboarding flow
Prompts for en encryption key – all backups need to be encrypted. Home Assistant is taking the approach, they don’t trust wherever backups are being stored.
Time is roughly 5 in the morning, after database schdules have been run. Daily or weekly backup options available.
Can specify number of backups to keep, what to backup (media, addons etc)
If you have a Home Assistant cloud account, you can store the latest backup to your Nabu Casa account, limited to 5gb.
Backup locations can be extended, which means integrations in the future can be set to be a backup location. This means there is the ability for the community to create additional backup storage locations. Hoping to have more available in Feb 2025 release. - What the Heck?!
Busiest month of what the heck so far - You can now zoom in on graphs using the CMD/CTRL buttons and scroll wheel
- You can now choose to switch off exposing new entities to voice assistants by default
- You can now re-order individual devices in the energy dashboard
- Media Player volumes on the Tile Card
- Images uploaded to Home Assistant can now be accessed via the Media Browser
- The Logbook card now supports the target picker
Which means you can now select entities, devices, areas, floors and labels to show logbook events for. - Starlink
Now has consumption sensors - SwitchBot
Initial support for SwitchBot relay switch, and support for BLE water leak sensor - UniFi
Basic AI Port support
Addget_user_keyring_infoservice for UniFi Protect - TPLink
Pan/tilt support for cameras
New Integrations
- Cookidoo
Shopping Lists - EHEIM Digital
Aquariam Device - Ituran
Retrieve and use information from your Ituran-equipped vehicle. - Ohme
Get sensor information from your Ohme smart EV charger. - Peblar
Control and monitor charging sessions of your Peblar EV Charger
Backward-incompatible Changes
- Lifx
The options color_temp and kelvin are no longer valid arguments for LIFX actions. Please use color_temp_kelvin instead. - Tesla Fleet
The included OAuth application credentials have been removed, as Tesla no longer supports Open Source application registrations, and is moving to a pay-per-use model - UniFi Network
The states of “Device State” sensors have been standardized to match Home Assistant core rules and be translatable
