2025.12: Triggering the holidays 🎄

[walkie (Leigh Walker)]

Thanks for all the hard work this year to all involved. Hopefully you’re in for a well earned break.

Got to ask though, why only Winter Mode? Unconscious bias?
As the song says, “It’s 5 o’clock somewhere”. It’s also summer somewhere.

Aw, just messing with ya, great work.

[donburch888 (Don Burch)]

Somehow snowflakes don’t seem to go with 36°C (96.8 Fahrenheit for you on the wrong side of the planet)

[lornem (Lorne C Melin)]

updating from 2025.11.2 to 2025.12 seems to have broken something in my Ecowit weather station setup.

After update the update I received a group of six repair reports as attached.

I really don’t understand all of this, just reporting what I see.
Below is the detail of one of the six reports.

******** error message is below these asterisks ************

The entity no longer has a state class

We have generated statistics for ‘HP2561 Event Rain’ (sensor.hp2561bu_pro_v1_8_0_event_rain_rate) in the past, but it no longer has a state class, therefore, we cannot track long term statistics for it anymore.
Statistics cannot be generated until this entity has a supported state class.

• If the state class was previously provided by an integration, this might be a bug. Please report an issue.
• If you previously set the state class yourself, please correct it. The different state classes and when to use which can be found in the developer documentation.
• If the state class has permanently been removed, you may want to delete the long term statistics of it from your database.

Do you want to permanently delete the long term statistics of sensor.hp2561bu_pro_v1_8_0_event_rain_rate from your database?

*************** error message is above these asterisks *****************

[mekaneck (Rick)]

Issue was opened (and subsequently closed) on the integration here with the following recommendation:

This is correct.
The invalid state class was removed.
You can follow the repair process, and delete the long term statistics.

[francisp (Francis)]

You can hide them

[tom_l]

I can’t remove them form here though:

[rvk (Valtteri Kokkoniemi)]

Awesome.

Now that you’re updating the energy dashboard, how about adding district heating? In Finland we have it instead of gas. It’s hot water measured in kWh.

[kusmi (Michael Kussmaul)]

Nice!

Now, that water consumption is more prominent, there is a localization problem with “litre”.

• it looks like in US/GB we use “L” (capital L) and
• in most of Europe we use “l” (lowercase L).

At the moment litre is capital “L” for all languages/regions, which looks strange for my eyes in Europe. Perhaps there is a case to introduce not only a language-setting, but also a region-setting to adress this?

[Didel]

I don’t know if this is already answered somewhere. I upgraded to 2025.12 last night. This morning when I opened the home assistant app, I was shown an overlay about whether I want a more secure or less secure access to my home by sharing location details. I was in a hurry, so I closed the dialog, but now I can’t find it anywhere. Can I trigger it again, or can someone tell me what setting it toggled?

[pergola.fabio]

About the new power sources, i added the solar power also, but in the power sources graph i dont see anything solar (yellow)? what am i missing ? configured the solar like below

[darki12 (Marcel)]

Regarding the new energy dashboard: nice for the new real time features. But: I had everything configured and already had a mass of historical data. I just added the new power sensors for my devices.

Did I lost all my historical data? Also I have no new areas like “Energy” or “Summary”

[Fywqdk (Morten)]

Agreed. Same in many other parts of europe. We even have separate tabs for electricity, water and gas now, but still not even the option to select or rename our heating source/type.

[tom_l]

That’s related to the app update not the core update. And I did exactly the same thing in a hurry.

In the app Go to Settings → Companion App → Your Server Name (right at the top).

Then you should see a Connection security level option you can set at the bottom of the first section.

[BebeMischa]

So, that is actually quiet simple. Litre is an unit from the SI ( International System of Units) and that states:

The litre, and the symbol lower-case l, were adopted by the CIPM in 1879 (PV, 1879, 41). The
alternative symbol, capital L, was adopted by the 16th CGPM (1979, Resolution 6; CR, 101
and Metrologia, 1980, 16, 56-57) in order to avoid the risk of confusion between the letter l (el)
and the numeral 1 (one).

see: Le Système international d’unités (SI brochure), 2006

So, that’s why I said “quiet simple”, because it is not

[Chykan (Hunter)]

It would be nice to see a few more Weather Effects that can be mapped to a weather entity. Like the ones below.

3D demo

GitHub - rauschermate/react-weather-effects: Animated weather effects (rain, snow, fog) on any...

[poudenes]

Hey All,

Maybe i missed something… but i get this error:

The legacy platform: template syntax for switch is being removed.`

- platform: template
  switches:
    helpers_puredirectdts:
      friendly_name: "DTS Pure Direct"
      unique_id: "61dd7a8b-8c11-4c76-9470-f3985f944826"
      turn_on:
        action: remote.send_command
        target:
          entity_id: remote.logitech_harmony
        data:
          command: "PureDirectOn"
          device: 41633063
      turn_off:
        action: remote.send_command
        target:
          entity_id: remote.logitech_harmony
        data:
          command: "PureDirectOff"
          device: 41633063

How do i config this template now?

[Thyraz]

Could it be, that you actually see the power sankey here instead energy?
Did you try to clear the cache?

[Thyraz]

The energy date picker in the top-bar was most likely the best thing about it in the past.

As this wasn’t possible for our own custom energy dashboards, I came up with this “sticky” scrolling solution lately:

Howto: Multiple energy date pickers as sticky-headers for custom (section based) energy dashboards

Warning: Requires Card-Mod 4 beta, as it applies CSS on section level. edit: Card-Mod 4 is out of beta, be sure to update to it to use this. I used some hacks to get the energy date picker card into the toolbar in the past. But this didn’t work reliable over time, and I started to use multiple time pickers on the same dashboard to look at daily ranges at top and monthly / yearly ranges further down the dashboard using multiple energy collection_key values. So I needed some way to keep differ…

Might be possible to get the date picker “sticking” at top while scrolling for the energy dashboard tabs overview, energy and water too …

[darki12 (Marcel)]

@Thyraz

sankey

Yes I see the sankey for power - but I have no option to switch that or add the historic data to this dashboard - or I am blind. I had my historic data before the update on my energy dashboard.

Also I cannot switch to other views - I only have “now” as option

All sensors / devices are configured with power and energy

Edit: cache was emptied - including whole browser cache

[Chykan (Hunter)]

@poudenes

Deprecation of legacy template entities in 2025.12

TLDR: Legacy template entities (alarm_control_panel, binary_sensor, cover, fan, light, lock, sensor, switch, vacuum, weather) are being deprecated in 2025.12. Legacy template entities will no longer work after 2026.6. I wanted to avoid the deprecation, however it’s apparent that it’s not possible due to future plans. Do not use AI to migrate. AI will screw up the yaml. Use the tools provided in this post, if you use AI you are on your own. The Deprecation Please use this thread to ask ques…