I’m having an issue with the built-in Suggest with AI button in Home Assistant 2025.8.1.
What happens:
- I have created a new AI Task (tested with both Google Generative AI and OpenAI integrations).
- Set it as the default under Settings → System → General → AI suggestions.
- Restarted HA Core to ensure settings are applied.
- The AI Task works fine if I call it manually from Developer Tools using
ai_task.generate_datawithresponse_variable. - However, when I click the built-in Suggest with AI button in the UI (e.g., when editing an automation), it fails with the following error:
The action requires responses and must be called with return_response=True
What I’ve tried:
- Deleted all existing AI Tasks and created a new one from scratch.
- Tested with OpenAI and Google Generative AI integrations.
- Restarted HA after every change.
- Verified that the default AI Task is correctly selected in AI suggestions.
Notes:
It seems the built-in button is still trying to call the service with return_response=True (old schema), even though in 2025.8 the AI Task service now uses response_variable instead.
This mismatch causes the action to fail.
Is this a known issue with the Suggest with AI button in 2025.8.x?
Do I need to configure something differently so the built-in button uses the new response_variable approach?
Thanks in advance for any guidance!
