Hey, friends! Due to its popularity last month and because I think it’s a great way to keep y’all involved - this thread is for the 2025.3 beta!
A general reminder: Beta week is not designed to fully overhaul a new feature, but to identify bugs that may be introduced with the update.
If you have an issue, please let us know here! However, the developers are very active in the #beta channel of our Discord server during Beta week - it’s good to hop in there if you can. To ensure things are addressed in a timely manner during Beta, be sure to also submit issues on GitHub in their proper space:
Now that’s out of the way, here are this month’s Beta notes. Things that I think you will be most interested in (it’s basically everything but with handy links):
The energy distance device class for sensors, which supports the following units: kWh/100mi , kWh/100km , mi/kWh
But the unit Wh/km would also be a nice addition.
(In my opinion, it’s the best unit to compare energy usage because it has three significant digits)
On the subject of margins, would it be possible to give sections the option to be completely removed when empty (I have some hidden warnigs in a top section that is empty most of the time. The empty section creates some noticable extra padding on the top of page.
While it’s probably a nice feature for some users, that automatic switch from installing an integration to the integration page is something that annoys me. Is there a way it could eventually be made user controllable?
as mentioned in the Beta Discord, I am seeing the new header: option in the views only applied to regular dashboard views, not to subviews.
Seems a bug (and especially a pity because I use those markdowns mostly on my subviews…)
update
thi has been fixed in B1
it was not the fact I tried the header on a Subview. It was caused by the fact that particular view had no badges section…
or so it seems.
Anyways, it’s fixed now.
This would likely be a Feature Request for the future. I totally understand what you mean here, but believe me when I say that as a new user I have absolutely lost where the device I just integrated went. It’s not fun chasing it sometimes.
The thing I’d like to see most is the ability to define and fixed header / footer for a dashboard and have the ability to make the main content section with the remaining cards in the centre horizontally / vertically scrollable.
Since 2025.3 beta, my washing machine (Siemens via Home Connect) no longer shows when a running program will complete (and thus can’t calculate progress and remaining time).
Settings > System > Updates > 3-dot-menu and select ‘Join beta channel’. Then hit the refresh icon next to the 3-dot-menu and the beta update will show up.
The timing of it will be slightly different to how the rc release notes are published for Beta because I have to wait for them. HOWEVER, I do plan on throwing up a new thread every Beta release for y’all - and locking it down in favor of the release thread once that’s live.
I like this thought! Let’s see where things end up by the end of Beta week, and then determine how we’ll get this set up as a feature request - I assume we will want to ensure all functionality before the FR is posted. When Beta ends and this thread closes, send me a DM or chat so I don’t forget to help you out.
Am I the only one who is experiencing this annoying discomfort? Since the recent beta versions of Home Assistent Os the cursor focus jumps immediately to the top of the code as soon I just enter one single character. I hope this will be fixed in the final March version of Home Assistent . So far I could not find anything in my Home Assistent that would make me think that this happens because of code I created myself.
Right now, the only way I have to enter more than 1 character of code is to put an extra indent or enter a little piece of code outside the Home Assistent interface to copy past it to the Home Assistent code editor window. But that is not very practical when working on multiple lines.
When Beta ends and this thread closes, send me a DM or chat so I don’t forget to help you out. 