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/F1rstxLas7 18d ago

Pi-hole users can now leverage API v6 functionality

FINALLY

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u/dovercliff 18d ago

HACS has an alternative, which goes above and beyond the official one, and the author has indicated they will continue to maintain it.

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u/F1rstxLas7 18d ago

Yeap, been using it, but HACS repos are HACS repos. Set up with the best intentions, but people get busy with other things. And there being an official working integration now means there will be less motivation for the HACS integration to continue development. Especially because Pi Hole doesn't generally change thst much from release to release. v6 was kind of a misnomer.

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u/talormanda 18d ago

I manually added my scripts to enable / disable pi-hole with their API so this won't happen again.

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u/zSprawl 17d ago

Ironically I find it the opposite.

For my solar panels, the native Enphase was behind on the v8 firmware and I ended up moving to a hacs version to get it online. I'm still using it years later because moving back risks losing data if done wrong.

Likewise, for Pihole, I moved to the hacs one because the native one wasn't updated for 6 months. The HACS one was done within days... and for now at least the developer is active.

Same with my Rainforest power device, which the native one works now, but I just don't wish to go through the trouble of going back after leaving for a hacs version.

I guess I keep getting hit with the same issue. Some native integration stops working, and I stumble into a solution in the issues thread on github where the community fixes it much faster than the native developer.