Hey, yeah, I know — I haven’t released a “What’s New in Home Assistant” video for the past two months, but now I’m back with the latest developments in the Home Assistant 2025.10 October release. And once again, there’s a bunch of cool stuff in it! Let’s take a quick look!
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As always, this video is based on the beta release of Home Assistant, so there may be small changes in the final release. But usually, that’s not a big deal. You can install the final release on the first Wednesday of the month, around 9 PM Central European Time.
Automation Editor
Let’s start with the Automation Editor. Wow! In the past few months, the editing pane on the right was added, and now there are even more changes based on your feedback to the Home Assistant team.
The sidebar is now resizable, allowing you to easily adjust the space for editing your automations if needed.
And finally, there’s now an option to copy and paste via the keyboard! You can now use Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V to copy and paste a trigger, action, or condition. Plus, you’ve got Ctrl-Del to delete them.
Maybe you already noticed — the overflow menu is back as well. You no longer need to open the right-hand editing pane first to change the options of a trigger, condition, or action — you can do it again directly from the three-dot menu on the left.
But there’s more! Two new arrows have been added at the top of the screen, allowing you to undo or redo up to 75 steps.
And finally, within the Automation Editor, the old Repeat Building Block has been replaced by four new Repeat Building Blocks. Well, actually, this was added in the previous release but never mentioned, so I’ll mention it now: you now have Repeat Until, Repeat While, Repeat For Each, and Repeat Multiple Times.
AI Image generation
From now on, you can use AI image generation to create your own images inside Home Assistant. This is fun for making your own creations, but you can also, for example, turn snapshots from your doorbell camera into something else.
I could generate a guitar with my logo on it. Or I could turn everyone standing at my front door into a clown. Or give everyone a funny hat. The possibilities are endless (and also a bit silly).
I’m curious to see if you can think of more meaningful uses — let me know in the comments!
Smarter Dashboards
There’s now a new card that shows which options you use most in your Home Assistant setup. It’s handy so you can quickly access them — or to see what you might want to automate because you’re using it frequently. This section is automatically added to the experimental Home Dashboard.
Clock Card
The Clock Card has also received some new options. You can now choose whether the second hand moves smoothly or ticks, and you can customise the appearance of the clock face.
Voice
It’s now possible to define two wake words for your voice assistant! That means you can, for example, address your voice assistant in two different languages.
Additionally, the voice assistant now provides a brief “beep” when tasks are successfully completed, rather than a full sentence describing its actions.
Media Player Info
The media player info has also had a makeover. As you can see, you now have access to the album art when requesting more information from the media player. This gives the media player a more professional look!
New Integrations
Additionally, new integrations are available. I won’t go through all of them, but you can find the full list on this page. There are quite a few, and numerous changes have been made to existing integrations. I’d recommend taking a look to see if anything useful is in there for you.
Other Noteworthy Changes
And that’s not all! There are even more changes worth noting — you can find them in this list.
Also, history charts now zoom in and out simultaneously.
And finally, the template editors have received a toolbar with options for undo, redo, copy, and expanding the screen. Super handy!
Make sure to read the backwards-incompatible changes before you update, so you’re not surprised if something stops working in the new version on your setup.
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