Home Assistant 2025.5 πŸŽ‰ Smarter backups with per-location retention, Z-Wave Long Range support, an improved entity picking experience, tons of new voices for Home Assistant Cloud, and the ability to just paste YAML directly into your automations.
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2025.5: Two Million Strong and Getting Better
Celebrating 2 million users with quality of life improvements! Enjoy smarter backups with per-location retention, Z-Wave Long Range support, an imp...
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It's #MentalHealthAwareness Month - if you're into tech, chances are you diverge from the typical. From ensuring lights are tuned to your preference to keeping up on chores, we have a few community projects to highlight this month that help w/ executive function. 😊 First - a simple wake-up alarm with a sunrise effect. Waking up at the same time every day without sound alarms jarring you out of bed is incredibly helpful for those who are autistic or those with ADHD. ➑️
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Simple light wake-up alarm with parabolic sunrise effect
Installation Create datetime helper for the time this is to be triggered. This is when the lights will start turing on from the lowest setting. ...
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If you haven't kept track of the Home Assistant Community Day meetups on Luma, Discord, or our forums, we have the list of events now embedded on the blog post! πŸ‘πŸ» Don't see your city yet? Set one up without a venue and see if others in your area want to meet. 😌 We're up to 47 scheduled meetups now! 🀩 New meetups appear once Missy approves the event for the calendar.
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Register today for Community Day 2025
On May 24th join in on meetups happening around the world.
We have another company joining the Works With Home Assistant program - Eve! πŸ₯³ Eve is at the forefront of the Matter standard and focus on local control & privacy in the home. Check out the blog πŸ‘‡πŸΌ for what devices were certified - including some firsts for the program. πŸ‘πŸ» #HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation
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Eve Joins Works With Home Assistant
They have had multiple Matter-over-Thread devices certified, including a cool outdoor weather sensor and smart heating devices.
πŸ€” Want to keep track of the events created for Home Assistant Community Day? We're hoping to get the Luma calendar embedded into the blog post, but until then you can see all the events on these spaces. Luma directly:
Home Assistant Community Day Β· Events Calendar
View and subscribe to events from Home Assistant Community Day on Luma. Gathering the community together for a world wide meetup celebration! πŸ‘πŸ»
 Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1k70q9s/register_today_for_community_day_2025_on_may_24th/ Discord:
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Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and h...
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Register today for Community Day 2025
We have a Dresden, Germany event set up! πŸŽ‰