Home Assistant, the smart home platform built for self-hosting, has released another significant update. Home Assistant 2025.7 includes more updates to the voice assistant, dashboard, device integrations, and much more.

The team said in a blog post, “Until now, Assist was mostly transactional, meaning when you would say something, you would get a response or it would perform an action, and that would be the end of it. […] With this release, we’re taking a big step forward.”

A snarky notification from Home Assistant describing someone at the door on an iPhone.
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There are some new integrations in this release, including the Altruist air quality and environmental sensor, the PlayStation network to track your currently-playing games on your dashboard, the Tilt Pi hydrometer, and the Vegetronix VegeHub smart garden controller. Several existing integrations have also been updated, like new IR brightness control for Reolink cameras, dishwasher alarm support and battery storage for Matter devices, Gemini 2.5 Flash model support in Google Generative AI, and evaporative humidifier support in SwitchBot.

Home Assistant has also rolled out a few great improvements to dashboards. The panel for adding a new dashboard has been redesigned, and the Area card has been revamped with a look and feel similar to the Tile card. There’s also a new overview panel with easy access to all your devices.

Home Assistant areas dashboard.
Home Assistant

The blog post explained, “The April release introduced an experimental Areas dashboard, designed to automatically generate a ready-to-use interface based on the configured areas within the home. However, the preview could become cluttered if you had a lot of devices in a room. 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.”

There are many other changes in this release, like improvements to the shopping list and integration management, so check out the full changelog at the source link below for all the details. If you already have Home Assistant, the update should appear in the system dashboard. You can set up a fresh install with the instructions on the Home Assistant website.

Source: Home Assistant