What's new in HomeAssistant 2025.8

Home Assistant 2025.8: Main news and improvements for your smart home

AI in Home Assistant in 2025

The August release brings a major leap forward in artificial intelligence. The new AI Tasks integration allows delegating various tasks to AI and easily using them in automations, scripts, and templates. For example, connect a camera or a file, and AI generates structured results. Using the new ai_task.generate_data action, AI tasks can be seamlessly integrated into workflows. Another new feature is the OpenRouter integration, which provides access to over 400 different AI models. The interface also introduces a “Suggest with AI” button that simplifies creating names, descriptions, and tags for automations and scripts.

1. Improved Streaming Text-to-Speech

Text-to-Speech now plays voice responses as they are generated, without waiting for the entire output. This improvement benefits especially those using cloud voices or longer AI responses, delivering faster and smoother interaction.

2. Integrate AI into your workflow: AI Task

The new integration allows generating data with AI, analyzing images from cameras or files, and directly using the output in sensors or automations. You can create templates that refresh regularly and automatically pull data from AI. Ready-to-use blueprints are available to get started quickly.

3. Work faster with “Suggest with AI” buttons

By setting a default AI Task entity under Settings > System > General, new buttons appear throughout the interface to quickly generate names, descriptions, and tags using AI. This removes the need to specify an entity each time, making blueprint sharing easier. This feature is optional and fully configurable.

This button is not visible by default and will only appear if you enable it in the "AI Suggestions" settings.

4. Area dashboard improvements

The area dashboard now lets you show the first camera, an image, or an icon of the area, making room cards clearer with quick visual access.

5. New integrations page

The integrations overview page has been completely redesigned to better display what devices and services belong to each integration, improving clarity especially for larger setups.

6. Control individual group members

Groups are great for controlling multiple entities at once, but now you can also control individual members directly from the group dialog for greater flexibility.

7. Set automations on selected days

Time triggers now support specifying weekdays when automations should run, enabling schedules active for only weekends, weekdays, or other specific days.

8. New integrations

• OpenRouter – unified access to hundreds of AI models.
• Ubiquiti UISP airOS – monitoring and managing airOS devices.
• Uptime Kuma – uptime and service monitoring.
• Volvo – status, location, and battery monitoring for Volvo vehicles.

9. Improvements to existing integrations

• PlayStation Network: new sensors for friend online status, current games, PS Plus subscription, and PS Vita support.
• Reolink: Wi-Fi sensors and enhanced recording options.
• AI Task and OpenAI Conversation integrations now support camera and file attachments.
• Expanded device support for YoLink, Pi-hole, SmartThings, Matter, Russound RIO, Awair, KNX, and more.
• More integrations can now be set up directly via the user interface.

10. Additional improvements

• Home Assistant’s interface features updated colors, better contrast, and clearer buttons for improved accessibility and readability.
• New sensor type for absolute humidity.
• Device groups can now be reordered freely.
• System diagnostics supports downloading diagnostic data.
• History statistics provide previews during configuration.
• Templates have expanded platform support and editing previews.
• New triggers allow automations only on specific days.
• Energy dashboard now includes improved visualization of energy flows.

11. Backward-incompatible changes

• Many media players (Android TV, Apple TV, Roku, PS4, etc.) now report off instead of standby. Automations relying on standby should be updated.
• Vacuum and Matter integrations removed the battery attribute; use the new battery level sensor instead.
• Reolink cameras report Wi-Fi signal strength in dBm instead of bars.
• UniFi Protect requires version 6.0.0 or newer due to new API.
• Other minor changes in templates and sensor behavior.

Conclusion

Home Assistant 2025.8 is another step toward a smarter, more accessible, and safer smart home. With powerful new AI features, expanded integrations, and an improved user experience, your automations become more intuitive and efficient. We recommend all smart home users update to this latest version.