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/18randomcharacters 18d ago

Am I the only one disgusted by AI being pushed into HA?

This is our platform of OFFLINE, LOCAL ONLY smart homes. I don’t want ChatGPT integration.

Edit: I’m glad it’s optional for now. But just its integration gives me the ick.

Though AI gets many people excited, there are still people who would prefer not to have this technology in their smart homes. We want to accommodate everyone’s choices, whether that’s to use AI or not. These features won’t appear unless you set up an AI integration and configure some specific settings

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u/Miserable-Soup91 17d ago

People are having some weird reactions to this update. AI has been a thing in HA for a while now. This is just allowing better integration for things people were already doing before. No one is being forced to use it, but it is making things easier for people that do.

AI also doesn't have to mean you are integrating with chatgpt either. Ollama runs fully locally. It does require more powerful gear to run but that will inevitably change in the future. And when it does, HA will have the foundation to harness it to whichever extent each user decides.

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u/18randomcharacters 17d ago

I think calling it “the summer of ai” makes it sound like that’s the only thing HA is focusing on, which may or may not be true, but is not ideal.