r/homeassistant • u/frenck_nl Home Assistant Lead @ OHF • 18d ago

Release 2025.8: The summer of AI ☀️

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/08/06/release-20258/
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u/FalconSteve89 18d ago

This is neat, I just hope it makes HA better, Google Home has gotten worse

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u/Dr4kin 18d ago

The good thing is that Home Assistant adds these as additional options. You can use them, but you can do it manual way if you want.

Using AI to detect things in video feeds can be very useful. The current suggestions aren't that necessary. In an upcoming release there is probably going to be a way to generate automations, which could become quite useful. If that works good enough, it could be a great way for newer users to get their first more complex automations up and running.

I am quite pleased with how they integrated all of it so far. It's not like so many other products where you are forced to use it, and it's often enough even worse than it was before. Here you get options, and they use it to improve things that you couldn't do otherwise. The intent system for voice is great, but has its limits. Using a LLM can improve it immensely, and there wouldn't be another way of doing it.

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u/salliesdad 18d ago

Glad to hear that you have the opportunity to turn this off