Home Assistant 2025.9 Brings an Experimental Home Dashboard, New Tile Card Features, and More

Home Assistant has announced the release of version 2025.9, described as a "massive" update to the popular home automation platform — and the first to introduce an experimental home screen dashboard, which is set to become the default in a future release.

"Over the past year, we have focused on dashboards and their capabilities a lot. We've looked at a lot of your dashboards you've shared on socials, and talked to many of you about how you organize all your smart home devices and services," explains Home Assistant lead engineer Franck Nijhof of the new release's experimental dashboard. "The goal? Making dashboards faster and easier to create, while still making them very customizable. With this release, we're introducing a brand-new Home dashboard. The purpose is simple: to give you easy access to the right information at the right time."

The new dashboard is, Nijhof claims, designed to "adapt" to users' experience levels, providing the flexibility required by power users with the simplicity desired by those new to the Home Assistant platform. This initial release includes quick navigation to light, climate, security, and media device summaries, the ability to browse by area, and the introduction of "favorites" which allow any entity to be pinned at the top of the screen.

"The Home dashboard is not just about quick control," Nijhof adds. "It also brings insights and information about your home. This first release includes weather and energy cards. It's a simple start, and we have a lot of ideas to explore with you. For example, helping you create your first automation, or show discovered devices."

Other changes in the new release include the addition of a sidebar to the automation editor, to make it easier to quickly adjust settings without losing sight of the overview, new tile card options including a bar gauge, a trend chart that, in its initial release, covers a 24-hour period, media playback controls, fan controls, valve controls, and customizable buttons, new integrations for Genie Aladdin Connect garage doors, SEKO PoolDose water treatment systems, ToGrill barbecue thermometers, and the Sleep as Android app, and a range of bug fixes and improvements — though the new release also drops support for Uonet+ Vulcan integration, owing to licensing change.

A full list of the notable changes, including a selection of breaking changes affecting 1-Wire, Alexa, Husqvarna, KNX, SIA, SwitchBot, and Yale August devices, is available on the Home Assistant blog, along with links to download the latest release; the project's source code is available, as always, on GitHub under the permissive Apache 2.0 license.