HOME ASSISTANT WILL BE ABLE TO CALL YOUR ANALOG PHONE TO TELL YOU A MESSAGE
Remember our tutorial on turning an analog phone into the world’s most private voice assistant? Thanks to Jamin, we now have a way to call your analog phone from Home Assistant!
You can use
assist_satellite.announceto have Home Assistant call your phone and play a message when someone picks up the phone.If you use an LLM as the brains for your voice assistant, you can take this one step further with the new
assist_satellite.start_conversationaction. Instead of playing an announcement, it starts a conversation between Home Assistant and the user, with Home Assistant saying the first message. Left the garage door open for 30 minutes? No problem, let Home Assistant call and ask if they want to close it.(Starting a conversation with the default conversation agent is a bit more work and did not make it this release).
Paulus mentioned in the Home Assistant 2025.2 release party video that this assist_satellite.announce feature will likely not be extended by Nabu Casa developers themself but it would be such as awesome feature if Assist AI could call up mobile phones to start a conversation between Home Assistant and the user.
Some use case scenarios could for example be to call up your neighbours (if they approved it) on their mobile phones if there is a fire alarm trigger by a smoke detector. Or call members of your neighbourhood watch if burglar alarm is triggered while the alarm system is armed. Question could be if they are able to go chwck it out for you or not and then it can inform you who has responded.
They also mentioned in the Home Assistant 2025.2 release party video that they would love it if some independent developer stepped up and extended it so that it could call mobile phones too.