2025.5: Two Million Strong and Getting Better

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Another note for you, if I set my picture entity card to “live” instead of “auto” it does display on the grid, however I was hoping to avoid having all the cameras constantly streaming when the preview was adequate before.

That said, even with live turned on, I have to click play in the camera after opening it up. Very odd.

  • Sorry about the deleted posts and reply to the wrong comment. :man_shrugging:t3: It’s just one of this mornings.
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There is a lot of focus on eye candy, user interface options for wow factor and showing off. From and UX related UI perspective this does not add to the strength of the application or core program, it adds a lot of clutter which requires time to be maintained. An effective user interface has its strength in simplicity, not in eye candy. I rather see more focus in strengthening some of the really popular HACS features and have them officially brought into HA, as they exist because of lacking core features.

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It’s a new action which media player integrations need to implement. It allows you to call an action which searches the media library - i.e. searching through the library you see when you Browse Media. There’s no UI for it yet - i.e. it’s an action you can call. It has to be implemented in media player integrations though, so you likely won’t see much support for a short while.

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Sorry, my bad: it was 3.13.1 :blush:
Am now on 3.13.2

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Backup settings worked for me after I

  • rebooted in safe mode
  • rebooted again back to normal mode
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Yes, that changed after the replacement of the paper-tabs in the header. You can get the previous behaviour using a card-mod theme and these styles.

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If it’s a zigbee sensor and you are using ZHA, it’s normal as ZHA has been updated and is now using HA precision settings

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Needed to go back to 4.4 today. 5.0 increased the processor use of my yellow from around 8% to almost 40%. Addons like AdGuard home were dropping out, making it not workable anymore. The latest backup made all return to normal. Not sure what is causing this.

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Same issue here. Tried two different computers and 3 different browser. All have a blank page when accessing the backup settings.

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Are all missing default_config: or cloud: in configuration.yaml ?

Adding cloud: should fix it until the next update
is available. https://github.com/home-assistant/frontend/pull/25366

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Dear Developers
I upgraded to 2025.5 and the following code no longer changes the icon colour in an entities card:

card_mod:
  style: |
    :host {
      --card-content-padding: 0px;
      --paper-item-icon-color: 
        {% if states('sensor.wind_speed_source') == 'main' %}
          green;
        {% elif states('sensor.wind_speed_source') == 'backup' %}
          orange;
        {% else %}
          red;
        {% endif %} !important;
    }

The icon remains default blue.

Hope someone can look at this? Otherwise great release!
Best regards, Colin

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Home Assistant’s development team isn’t responsible for card_mod. Please contact its author.

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Please see the backward incompatible changes about the theme change. You will need to update your card mode code to reflect those changes.

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Change --paper-item-icon-color for --card-mod-icon-color

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thanks, that fixed one issue

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I would like to say WOW to the HA crew for the new offline Zigbee device adding process. I just received 2 new door sensors, so scanning QR codes, naming straight away (rather than renaming later) and then switching on and seeing the entities appear in HA - amazing. A very slick process, well done.

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Please don’t hide the entity id’s! It’s hard enough to find the darn things as it is. I need them in two instances: when I have a specifically named device that I now use for a different purpose and when I have generic named devices that I move around. (Please don’t ask me to rename them … that has always caused unexpected issues!)

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They were kind and thoughtful enough to give us the option (it’s in the release notes).

You’ll find this by selecting your profile in the sidebar.

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I use the Generic Camera integration with unauthenticated http(s) camera feeds from California’s DOT. I’ll upgrade HA after 2025.5.0.

OT, the DOT feeds buffer quite a bit, every four to eight seconds for several seconds. Local TV news doesn’t seem to have that issue, unless they prerecord the feed Hmmm.

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For some reason, I am not getting the option to update. I’m running HA OS in a proxmox VM. So far I have:

  • performed a hard refresh of the browser
  • cleared browser cache
  • rebooted
  • rebooted into safe mode
  • manually checked for updates in Settings > System > Updates

I’ve been running in this way for a while and didn’t have an issue last month. Any ideas?

Thanks!
MJK