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Please welcome the latest addition to the Works with Home Assistant program, SwitchBot! This year has seen a lot of ‘firsts’ within the program, and this launch certainly keeps up this trend. Read on to see the first _Air Purifiers_ and _Vacuums / Cleaning Robots_! What’s more, SwitchBot is bringing this first set of devices into the program with multiple connectivity options. Pick from their Bluetooth integration, Matter via a hub, or standalone Matter devices as well. All this gives you even more choice in how you set up your smart home, while providing the best experience with Home Assistant. ## Making the Switch…Bot SwitchBot quickly gained traction in the smart home industry with their original finger bots, which sit over non-smart switches and physically press them down on your behalf. Since then, they’ve expanded to include many other smart home devices like curtain robots, hubs, air purifiers, and cleaning robots. We were excited to see these new products in person at CES earlier this year and meet up with their team. SwitchBot even got involved with Community Day, hosting a meet-up in Shenzhen, China. We love that the ‘Works with’ partners show that they’re passionate about engaging with our community, taking the partnership much further than just a label on a box. "At SwitchBot, we're committed to empowering users with seamless and intelligent home automation. By collaborating with Home Assistant's passionate, tech-savvy community, we're able to push boundaries and deliver more integrated, intuitive experiences. Together, we aim to expand what's possible, offering users greater flexibility to connect, control, optimize their homes, and to make it simple." _- Richard Mou - Co-Founder, SwitchBot_ ## Devices In case you didn’t know, Works with Home Assistant differs from other certification programs as products are rigorously tested in-house to ensure they work seamlessly out of the box with Home Assistant. Any company joining also commits to providing long-term support and firmware updates while being a positive force in the Home Assistant community. Works with Home Assistant is operated by the Open Home Foundation, and the support of Home Assistant Cloud subscribers funds this work. The SwitchBot team have put special focus on integrating specifically for Home Assistant and have been working hard on their Bluetooth integration. Though the community played a central role in the development of the integration, and SwitchBot is very thankful for this work, they took a more active role in its development. One of the terms of the ‘Works with’ program is that Bluetooth devices must connect over an integration that is kept up to a certain code quality (we call this our ‘Gold tier’ on our quality scale). It also must be maintained by the manufacturers themselves, rather than overly relying on community members to do the hard work. This puts the responsibility on the shoulders of the manufacturers to make sure they’re responding to bugs and keeping the integration up long term. If you’re interested in SwitchBot’s Bluetooth products but your Home Assistant system doesn’t have built-in Bluetooth, the easiest way to connect them is by using a Bluetooth Proxy. If you prefer Matter, SwitchBot also has devices that are certified for use with one of their Matter hubs: either the SwitchBot Hub 2 or the Hub 3. There are also some that can work via Matter-over-WiFi as standalone devices. We are currently testing even more of SwitchBot’s Matter devices for the program. **Bluetooth** * SwitchBot Lock Ultra * SwitchBot Air Purifier * SwitchBot Air Purifier Table * SwitchBot Leak Detector - also works using Matter via a hub * SwitchBot Meter - also works using Matter via a hub * SwitchBot Meter Pro - also works using Matter via a hub * SwitchBot Meter Pro CO2 - also works using Matter via a hub * SwitchBot Indoor/Outdoor Thermo-Hygrometer - also works using Matter via a hub * SwitchBot Curtain 3 - also works using Matter via a hub * SwitchBot Contact Sensor - also works using Matter via a hub * SwitchBot Roller Shade - also works using Matter via a hub * SwitchBot Lock Pro - also works using Matter via a hub **Matter-Over-WiFi (standalone, without requiring a hub)** * SwitchBot Air Purifier * SwitchBot Air Purifier Table * SwitchBot Multitasking Robot K20 + Pro _**Note:**_ _Home Assistant Container does not support Matter, and requires Home Assistant OS._ ## A smart home is a clean home Eat your heart out Wall-E SwitchBot’s K20 is the first cleaning robot in the Works with Home Assistant program as well as the world’s first multi-tasking household robot. This wacky robot can be paired with lots of other items in the range, including the certified air purifiers, to make some really cool Home Assistant use cases. Just imagine, you’re making some delicious dinner, but oh no, you’ve left a pan alone for too long and it starts to smell and burn. You could summon the K20 with an air purifier on top using the Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition. A few moments later, it’s found its way to you and gets started on clearing the air in your kitchen. Plus, as these can both work via Matter, there’s no need for cloud involvement. Some of the items also come with a table top so this device has some great applications for anyone with limited mobility. ## Bot to the future These devices are the first certified items, but SwitchBot is working to get many more tested and fully feature-rich with Home Assistant. We’re excited to keep expanding this list over time, but if you can’t wait (and this work is only possible with the support of our Home Assistant Cloud subscribers), you can see the list of the other devices they are working on here. ## FAQs _**Q: If I have a device that is not listed under ‘Works with Home Assistant’ does this mean it’s not supported?**_ A: No! It just means that it hasn’t gone through a testing schedule with our team or doesn’t fit the requirements of the program. It might work fine and be added to our testing later down the road. Though it might only have limited functions that are being worked on, or use a connectivity type we don’t currently test for in the program. _**Q: Ok, so what’s the point of the Works with program?**_ A: It highlights the devices we know work well with Home Assistant and the brands that make a long-term commitment to keeping support for these devices going. The certification agreement specifies that the devices must have full functionality within Home Assistant, operate locally without the need for cloud, and will continue to do so long-term. _**Q: How were these devices tested?**_ A: The Bluetooth devices in this list were tested using a standard Home Assistant Green Hub, the SwitchBot Bluetooth Integration, a USB Bluetooth adapter, and an ESPHome Bluetooth Proxy. The Matter-over-WiFi devices were also tested with Home Assistant Green and our certified Matter Integration. If you have another hardware setup or integration, that is often not a problem, but we test against these as they are the most effective way for our team to certify within our ecosystem. _**Q: Will you be adding more SwitchBot devices to the program?**_ A: Absolutely! SwitchBot has a quickly growing set of product lines that we’re working to certify together, subject to the integrations fully covering all the functions.

The first air purifiers and cleaning robots join the program, with options for Matter and Bluetooth connectivity.

Home Assistant 2025.6! 🎉 We are already half way through 2025, can you believe it? I personally can’t, as it feels like we just started the year. Not just that, there are so many exciting things to still come this year, and I can’t wait to share them with you! Anyway, the June release is here! A week later than usual, but it also means we had an extra week to polish and beta test this release. Like the previous release, this release is packed with quality-of-life improvements! Last release my favorite feature was the new entity picker; this release, we improved ALL other pickers! No surprise that this, again, makes it to my top favorite this release. Although the ability to group media players directly from the media player card is a close second. It is so nice to see how Home Assistant keeps getting better and better, and how our community keeps contributing to it. 😍 If you are leveraging Bluetooth in your Home Assistant setup, you will also love the new Bluetooth connection graph that shows how your Bluetooth devices are connected, including Bluetooth proxies. Troubleshooting Bluetooth has become so much easier now! Enjoy the release! ../Frenck _PS: We will pick up the regular release schedule again now, so expect the next release on the first Wednesday of July (July 2nd)._ * Improving all the “pickers” * Making sense of Bluetooth * Iterations of the experimental area dashboard * Deprecating installation methods and 32-bit architectures * Integrations * New integrations * Noteworthy improvements to existing integrations * Integration quality scale achievements * Farewell to the following * Other noteworthy changes * Sidebar improvements * Join/unjoin groups of media players * Reset/restore entity IDs * Need help? Join the community! * Backward-incompatible changes * All changes ## Improving all the “pickers” Pickers are those dropdowns you use to select entities, devices, areas, and more. Pickers are _everywhere_ in Home Assistant, being used in automations, scripts, and configuration options. Last release, we introduced a new entity picker, which was a big hit! This release takes things further by refining the search experience based on your feedback. Even better, that same improved search experience now comes to the area, category, floor, label, user, and device pickers too! They are consistent, fast, and easy to use, no matter what you’re selecting. And the device picker? It now has a fresh look to match, complete with manufacturer logos and styling inspired by the entity picker. ## Making sense of Bluetooth Home Assistant has powerful Bluetooth capabilities, and with the use of something like ESPHome Bluetooth proxies, you can extend your Bluetooth network to cover your entire home. This release brings some improvements to the Bluetooth integration that will help you understand your Bluetooth network better. The Bluetooth integration now provides a visualization that shows how your Bluetooth devices are connected to your Home Assistant instance, whether that’s directly to your system or through a Bluetooth proxy. It not only shows the actively connected devices, but also the devices that are in range, but not yet known to Home Assistant. This is a great way to see what devices are around you and where they can be potentially connected. Oh! And now that the Bluetooth integration has a sleek new visualization, the Zigbee integration, which already has a similar feature, has been given a visual update. This makes visualizations consistent across Home Assistant. ## Iterations of the experimental area dashboard In the April release, we introduced a new experimental Areas dashboard, which automatically generates a ready-to-use dashboard based on the areas you’ve set up in your home. It uses sections and tile cards for a modern, clean, and intuitive look — all built for you in a couple of clicks. As this is experimental, it is being continuously iterated on. This release brings some nice changes, based on your feedback, to subtly refine the experience. We added a new “Actions” section that includes scripts, automations, and scenes. We also added number entities (and number helpers), button entities (and button helpers), counters, and timer helpers to the “Others” section. This makes it easier to find and manage your automations and scenes in the context of your areas. Finally, we renamed the “Entertainment” section to “Media players”. This makes it clearer that this section is specifically for your players, and may not include your DIY arcade machine 👾. ## Deprecating installation methods and 32-bit architectures This release introduces important deprecation announcements, and though they only affect a small percentage of users, it is important that they understand the impacts. We’ve written a detailed blog that explains the rationale, timeline, and tips on how to migrate — which I highly suggest reading if you think you’re affected. * **Installation Methods** : The **Core** and **Supervised** installation methods are now officially deprecated. These are advanced setups that are only used by a small portion of users, as they involve running Home Assistant in a Python environment or installing the Supervisor on top of your own operating system. Moving forward, we are focusing our support on the more streamlined and maintainable installation methods: **Home Assistant OS** and **Home Assistant Container**. * **32-bit Architectures** : Support for legacy 32-bit CPU architectures (**i386** , **armhf** , and **armv7**) is also being deprecated. These architectures are increasingly uncommon and pose challenges for maintaining compatibility and performance. To assist you during this transition, Home Assistant will now raise a **repair issue** after upgrading if your system is affected by these deprecations. This notification will appear in the repair dashboard, providing information about the deprecation along with guidance on how to migrate to a supported setup. It’s important to note that while these methods and architectures are deprecated, they will continue to receive support for the next six months, until the release of Home Assistant 2025.12. You can continue to use them after this point, but we would highly recommend migrating. After this 6-month period, they will become unsupported, meaning they will no longer receive updates or official assistance. If you don’t receive this repair message, you’re not affected. However, you can double-check using our guide if you’d like. We also have specific information on what becoming deprecated and unsupported means for your installation. Lastly, we have detailed information on how best to migrate to a supported system. ## Integrations Thanks to our community for keeping pace with the new integrationsIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] and improvements to existing ones! You’re all awesome 🥰 ### New integrations We welcome the following new integrations in this release: * **Alexa Devices** , added by @chemelli74 Connect to and control your Amazon devices like Echo, Fire TV, and Alexa-enabled devices. * **Immich** , added by @mib1185 Integrates with Immich App, a self-hosted photo and video backup solution that puts you in control of your personal media. * **Paperless-ngx** , added by @fvgarrel Connect to your Paperless-ngx system to track and manage your digital documents from Home Assistant. * **Probe Plus** , added by @pantherale0 Integrate wireless Bluetooth meat thermometers compatible with the PROBE PLUS app, bringing real-time temperature monitoring during cooking into Home Assistant. * **Zimi Cloud Connect** , added by @mhannon11 Connect to Zimi Cloud devices to monitor and control your Zimi smart home products. This release also has new virtual integrations. Virtual integrations are stubs that are handled by other (existing) integrations to help with findability. These ones are new: * **Kaiser Nienhaus** , provided by Motionblinds, added by @starkillerOG ### Noteworthy improvements to existing integrations It is not just new integrationsIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] that have been added; existing integrations are also being constantly improved. Here are some of the noteworthy changes to existing integrations: * @bdraco added support for updating ESPHome devices that are in deep sleep. A very welcome improvement for battery-powered devices! * The Homee integration now supports fans and provides alarm control panels. Thanks for expanding its capabilities, @Taraman17! * Teslemetry keeps getting better—@Bre77 added a hazard lights binary sensor, a valet mode switch, and a credit balance sensor. Nice! * @bieniu improved the Shelly integration to use sub-devices for multi-channel devices. A notable change for complex setups! * The SmartThings integration saw a huge round of improvements by @joostlek, including: support for cooktops, hobs, water heaters, hood fan speeds, Steam closet modes, freezer and cooler temperatures, washer spin and soil levels, valve positions, heat pump zone climates, and atmospheric pressure. Amazing! * Miele keeps on shining with new features from @astrandb, like vacuum support, drying step sensors, washer-dryer program phases, and hob plate sensors. @generically-named added energy and water forecasts too—very cool! * @agorecki added a Lux sensor to the Airthings Cloud integration—bright idea! * The Squeezebox integration now includes service update entities, thanks to @pssc! * @tedvdb added a status sensor to the Whois integration. Simple, but effective. * @zerzhang added support for SwitchBot vacuums, and new lock models: the Lock Ultra and Lock Lite! * @danielvandenberg95 updated the Sonos integration to show playlists under favorites. A great UX win! * The Kostal Plenticore integration now supports installer login. Thanks for that improvement, @Schlauer-Hax! * @Shulyaka added support for Anthropic Claude 4. Welcome to the future! * And finally, @chemelli74 added preset mode support to the Comelit climate integration. Another nice quality-of-life addition! ### Integration quality scale achievements One thing we are incredibly proud of in Home Assistant is our integration quality scale. This scale helps us and our contributors to ensure integrations are of high quality, maintainable, and provide the best possible user experience. This release, we celebrate several integrationsIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] that have improved their quality scale: * **1 integration reached gold** 🥇 * SwitchBot, thanks to @zerzhang * **1 integration reached silver** 🥈 * Shelly, thanks to @bieniu This is a huge achievement for these integrations and their maintainers. The effort and dedication required to reach these quality levels is significant, as it involves extensive testing, documentation, error handling, and often complete rewrites of parts of the integration. A big thank you to all the contributors involved! 👏 ### Farewell to the following The following integrationsIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] are also no longer available as of this release: * **RTSPtoWebRTC** has been removed as it has been replaced by the go2rtc integration. ## Other noteworthy changes There are many more improvements in this release; here are some of the other noteworthy changes: * A small but neat one: @balloob made it so discoveries shown on an integration page are now sorted by title. Helpful! * The Home Assistant Cloud integration will now raise a repair issue when your subscription has expired, helping make sure you’re aware and not caught off guard. Nice one, @ludeeus! * More backup improvements! 🎉 * Home Assistant will now raise a repair issue if not all add-ons or folders were successfully backed up. Thanks, @emontnemery! * @agners made it so that when an add-on is auto-updated, a backup is now correctly created as an “add-on”-backup. Great! * A new automatic backup event entity has been added to track automatic backups made by the system. Great addition by @mib1185! * @lboue added support for the Matter pump device type. Another one added to the list—awesome! * The Template integration got a big boost! * @Petro31 added modern-style YAML support for template fans, locks, alarm control panels, vacuums, and covers. So clean! * You can now create **trigger-based template covers**. Yep, also by @Petro31! * The `trigger_variables` option is now supported when using `for` in a trigger. A small but powerful feature. Thanks, @Petro31! * New template filters! You can now use `from_hex`, and `base64_encode` now supports both bytes and strings. Handy additions from @Petro31! * New sensor capabilities: * @Passific added a new device class and units for **reactive energy**. Nice! * A new unit for **energy distance (Wh/km)** has been added. Thanks, @frenck! * Sensors now support **mg/m³** as a concentration unit—another nice addition by @frenck! * @Arnie97 added support for **liters** as a unit for gas sensors. Much appreciated! * The new `recorder.get_statistics` action lets you query statistics directly from the recorder. Powerful stuff, @Hypfer! ## Sidebar improvements If you didn’t know yet, you can actually adjust the contents of your Home Assistant sidebar. You can change the order and show/hide items by pressing and holding the “Home Assistant” text at the top of the sidebar, or by going to your user profile page and selecting “Change the order and hide items from the sidebar”. This release brings a couple of much-needed improvements to this feature. When you customize the sidebar, it will now bring up a nice and clean dialog that allows you to drag and drop items to change their order, or hide them by clicking the eye icon next to them. The biggest improvement is actually found somewhere else! Previously, the customization of the sidebar was only applied to the device you made the changes on; and even more annoying, sometimes it would lose the changes, or it would magically forget your settings on our [mobile companion apps] when you switched between your home network (and thus the internal URL). 🥲 In this release, this annoyance has been fixed! The sidebar customization is now stored in your user profile, so your personalized layout follows you across all devices you use with Home Assistant! ## Join/unjoin groups of media players Media players in Home Assistant can provide actions for media players to join or unjoin a group of media players. This is a great way to dynamically control your media players and the groups they are in. However, this feature was somewhat limited, as it could only be used as actions within things like automations or scripts. Now, @AlexGustafsson changed that! 🎉 You can now use the media player card to join or unjoin groups of media players. This is a great way to control your media players and their groups directly from the UI. Please note that, you can only join or unjoin groups of media players that support this feature. Unfortunately, not all media players support this, so it might not be available for all your media players. Anyhow, amazing contribution Alex! 👏 ## Reset/restore entity IDs You can now restore the ID of an entity to its original value. This is useful if you have renamed an entity and want to revert it back to its original entity ID. This feature is available in the entity configuration dialog, where you can now find a “Reset” icon on the entity ID field. When clicked, it will restore the entity ID to its original value. Additionally, there is the option called “Recreate entity IDs” in the top right three-dotted menu on the device page, to reset all entity IDs of a device to their original values. ## Need help? Join the community! Home Assistant has a great community of users who are all more than willing to help each other out. So, join us! Our very active Discord chat server is an excellent place to be at, and don’t forget to join our amazing forums. Found a bug or issue? Please report it in our issue tracker, to get it fixed! Or, check our help page for guidance for more places you can go. Are you more into email? Sign-up for our Building the Open Home Newsletter to get the latest news about features, things happening in our community and other news about building an Open Home; straight into your inbox. ## Backward-incompatible changes We do our best to avoid making changes to existing functionality that might unexpectedly impact your Home Assistant installation. Unfortunately, sometimes, it is inevitable. We always make sure to document these changes to make the transition as easy as possible for you. This release has the following backward-incompatible changes: Met Office Met Office deprecated the Datapoint API used by this integration, causing it to stop working. To address this, it is now migrated to DataHub API. To keep using this integration, you will need to provide a new API key, which can be obtained by signing up for DataHub and subscribing to Global spot dataset. The free subscription provides 360 calls per day, which is enough for this integration to work. Some sensors have changed due to the new data source: * Hourly forecast provided by the weather entity now has actual hourly entries as opposed to 3-hourly in the old version * Instead of `visibility` and `visibility_distance` sensors showing a range and qualitative description (such as “1-4 km” and “Poor”), the integration now exposes a single `visibility` sensor with precise visibility distance in meters * The integration no longer exposes “daily” and “3-hourly” sensors; there is a single set of them now * The integration sensors no longer expose `Site ID`, `Site name` and `Sensor ID` attributes as these don’t provide any additional value (@avee87 - #131425) (documentation) If you are a custom integration developer and want to learn about changes and new features available for your integration: Be sure to follow our developer blog. The following changes are the most notable for this release: * Icon translations now support ranges * Sensor device classes now have default display precision ## All changes Of course, there is a lot more in this release. You can find a list of all changes made here: Full changelog for Home Assistant Core 2025.6