Home Assistant 2025.2 Release Party

Home Assistant 2025.2 is launching, so it's time to party. Catch up as we talk about the iterations on backups based on community feedback, a preview of what's new in Voice, and more!

[someoneinmyhead]

You guys are so cool! Thanks for you amazing job! HA rocks!

[sdotter]

Thanks for this nice new release ❤🎉
And awesome for listening to community about mandatory encryption ✌️🤟❤️
New backup locations options is really nice

[peterpalupski]

Just booked HA Cloud a few weeks ago and it's awesome! I think it is a good way of supporting and using it's voice is such a great experience compared to my tiny server processing. I am also very excited on next weeks Year of the Voice video!

Thanks a lot to everyone for the great work!

[brianzdan]

It would be helpful if you added a table of contents with timestamp in the notes. Thanks!

[Smoothy]

Hi,
Awesome work 👍.
Very pleased that you have revised the graphs and added a readout cursor line.
That's a real improvement, but would be even better if we could use a common readout cursor across several graphs arranged one below the

[cbcdesign]

I really like this new backup system now, its MUCH better than the version in the January release. Nice job.

[michaelkazmierczak]

Thank you 4 the very beautyfull ways to Backup everything 2 the best Time and feeling of all Users.🥰

[CalmingWinds]

Personally I don't see what the fuss was about, adding encryption to protect all your IOT devices seems like a no brainer. Thanks for keep delivering an amazing product to the community!

[the_smart_home_maker]

Cool! Thank you so much. Great new features!

[tujuprojects]

A good improvement for backups is to support migration from database to another, in this case a remote one off the embedded system.

What would it take to be able to expand what MCP can do?

Like I would like to be able to ask Claude to write an automation, and for it to troubleshoot my files and logs while doing it

[jayturner]

I want a table grid where I can see all my entities and toggle if they're exposed to assist. I'd also like to expose some entities as read-only.

[ronsissons_drums]

Can we get a setting in the Home Assistant Voice Preview to select a default media player to have it respond on? This would be to have it respond on another speaker(i.e. Google Home) that's in the same room without having to use the mp3 jack. Seems like we could have it reply to a designated media_player device pretty easily.

[Cadavissr]

I have started seeing that my HA on a Raspberrypi 5 would crash at this backup time. I get up at 5 and notice that HA has stop responding. I would have to hard reset the system to get it back operational. Anyone else using a Pi5 and seeing this issue?

[tujuprojects]

I want you to show setup and operation of KNX system in some release video. That’s core of proper home automation and majority of community doesn’t know it.

[tujuprojects]

Does Feenck read these youtube comments?

[mcmormus]

Could you please consider making shorter videos about your updates and new functions. 2 hours is simply far too much! Even with a playback speed of a factor of 2, that's still over an hour of life, which everyone here has to be able to spare.