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Home Assistant 2025.9

This release brings sidebar for automation editor with better navigation, experimental Home dashboard adapted to experience level, 7 new tile card features (trend chart, media controls, bar gauge and more), smooth analog clock, and storage insights for storage management.

Main Features​

Automation Editor Sidebar​

  • New sidebar - Shows automation structure on left
  • Clickable items - Opens detail on right side
  • Maintains overview - Visibility of entire structure during editing
  • Better navigation - Quick jumping between sections
  • Improved workflow for complex automations

Home Dashboard (Experimental)​

  • Adaptive design - Adjusts to experience level
  • Navigation to summaries - Area overview
  • Area browsing - Browse rooms
  • Favorites pin - Pin favorites
  • Weather card - Current weather
  • Energy card - Energy overview
  • Insights cards - Useful insights
  • Manual add only - Not default, user must activate
  • Modern and clear look for advanced users

Tile Card Features (7 New)​

Trend Chart Feature​

  • Mini graphs - Show trends directly on card
  • History data - Historical entity data
  • Visual development overview

Media Player Feature​

  • Media controls - Playback control
  • Buttons - Play, pause, next, previous
  • Compact media player control

Bar Gauge Feature​

  • Progress bar - Visual value indication
  • Number/sensor entities - For numbers and measurements
  • Quick status view

Fan Direction and Oscillation​

  • Fan controls - Direction and oscillation of fans
  • Toggle switches - Direction switches
  • Detailed fan control

Buttons Feature​

  • Custom buttons - Custom actions on buttons
  • Multiple actions - Multiple buttons on card
  • Flexible control

Valve Feature​

  • Valve controls - Valve control
  • Open/close - Open and close
  • Position control - Set position
  • Integration for valves

Date Setting Feature​

  • Date entities - Set date
  • Picker interface - Select date via calendar
  • Easy work with date entities

Analog Clock - Smooth Seconds​

  • Smooth motion - Second hand moves smoothly
  • 60 FPS animation - Smooth motion
  • New look - Elegant design
  • Enhancement of original Lovelace clock

Storage Insights​

  • Disk metrics - Display disk usage
  • Storage panel - Storage overview
  • Category breakdown - Division by categories
  • Database size - Database size
  • Backup sizes - Backup sizes
  • Addon storage - Addon storage usage
  • Better storage space management

New Integrations​

The following new integrations are added in this release:

Notable Improvements to Existing Integrations​

It's not just new integrations that have been added; existing integrations are also constantly being improved. Here are some of the other notable changes in this release:

Husqvarna Automower​

  • Blade reset button - Blade reset
  • Error events - Error events
  • Better maintenance tracking
  • Speak service - TTS on camera
  • Doorbell volume - Doorbell volume setting
  • Chime settings - Chime melody settings
  • Continuing Reolink integration expansion

PlayStation Network​

  • Notifications - Network notifications
  • Further gaming integration improvement

UniFi​

  • Switch port control - Control switch ports
  • PoE control - Enable/disable PoE
  • Port speed - Set port speed
  • Advanced UniFi device management

OpenWeatherMap​

  • Wind gust sensor - Wind gust measurement
  • Better wind forecasts

EZVIZ​

  • Battery sensor - Battery status
  • Online status - Connection monitoring
  • Enhanced camera monitoring

Russound RIO​

  • Presets - Saved presets
  • Quick access to favorite settings

Awair​

  • Absolute humidity - Absolute humidity
  • Extended air quality data

Teslemetry​

  • Charging sensors - Detailed charging information
  • Preconditioning - Preheating/cooling
  • Better Tesla monitoring

Enphase Envoy​

  • IQ Meter support - IQ Meter support
  • C6 collectors - New data collectors
  • Solar integration expansion

Quality Scale Achievements​

  • Gold: PlayStation Network
  • Silver: SEKO, Sleep as Android, UniFi
  • Bronze: Aladdin Connect, ToGrill

Other Notable Changes​

Template entity default ID​

  • YAML default ID - Set default entity ID
  • unique_id field - Automatic generation
  • Better template entity management

Template Event Entities​

  • Event template entity - New template entity type
  • Custom events - Generate custom events
  • Extended template capabilities

Template Update Entities​

  • Update template entity - Template for update entities
  • Custom update logic - Custom update logic
  • More flexible update tracking

m³/min Volume Flow Unit​

  • New unit - For volume flow
  • HVAC systems - Useful for ventilation
  • Correct units for flow meters

Voice Improvements​

Fuzzy Matching English​

  • More flexible recognition - Tolerates typos
  • Variant matching - "turn on" vs "switch on"
  • Better command understanding

Media Player Volume Intents​

  • "Set volume to 50%" - Voice volume setting
  • "Increase/decrease volume" - Relative changes
  • Voice control for media players

Fan Speed Intents​

  • "Set fan speed to 50%" - Voice speed setting
  • "Increase/decrease fan speed" - Relative changes
  • Voice control for fans

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