We’re here with yet another monthly Home Assistant update, and in true Nabu Casa fashion, 2025.11 (the November update) is now live. After a short yet productive beta release, the team was ready to push out the code to the live branch for everyone to download.

We’ve played around with the latest version of Home Assistant to see what you can expect after updating your installation.

Automations are (again) receiving work

They’re much more slick

It’s no secret that Home Assistant’s automations leave a lot to be desired, especially for beginners, and Nabu Casa continues to take on board all the community feedback. The November update brings with it some notable improvements to this area of Home Assistant. Although cosmetic, the team has radically improved the dialog pop-up for triggers, conditions, and actions.

In prior releases, the dialog window was smaller, which made it a little too compact and cluttered. The new and improved dialog pop-ups are larger, and everything is now positioned within a two-pane layout, which can better handle navigation and selections within actions and blocks. Speaking of which, blocks have been migrated to a dedicated tab on the main dialog screen.

It’s a small change, but one that makes it easier to quickly configure and edit set automations directly within Home Assistant, and the team teased that this isn’t where the work ends. The new dialog windows are foundations for what’s coming next.

Entities are less annoying

Renaming on the dashboard!

This is rather huge and something I had secretly complained about in my mind, after seeing it was already a point of contention. Work was previously done to improve the entity picker by adding more context to spot where each entity belongs. They’ve finally added this to dashboards, allowing you to get really creative as to how everything appears on the main screen and avoid duplicates.

With the November update, we can now select entity, device, area, floor, or even combine them all together to create something truly unique for each tile card. And sticking to the dashboard for an additional second, the November update also makes the dashboard even smarter, on top of what we saw with the previous version rollout. Areas are now grouped by floor, suggested entities are now combined, and various views have been moved.

It’s great to see yet more work being done on making the dashboard feel less like a setup and more reflective of the smart home it represents.

More ways to see power usage

I heard you like pie?

Because a simple bar chart wasn’t enough, Nabu Casa added a toggle button in the top-right corner of the device’s energy graph that switches between the usual bar chart and an all-new pie chart. That’s about it. Nothing really functional here, outside of it being easier to see how each device and location compares for power usage.

Other charts that don’t have this button will now feature the total energy used for the selected period.

See the progress of updates

This is minor, but also huge

Ever wondered why you simply had to wait through Home Assistant Core and add-on updates without seeing how they’re progressing? That’s all coming to an end, thankfully, with the introduction of progress bars, status, and percentages. Now, you’ll be able to tell roughly how far along you are with that one add-on update, which is a minor but welcome improvement.

More integrations!

The excellent and active community hasn’t halted adding new integrations to Home Assistant. For the November 2025 release, we’re seeing a few cool new integrations:

• Fing — Integrate with Fing for network scanning, device detection, and presence monitoring.
• Firefly III — Financial management.
• iNELS — Lighting, heating, automation, and more for iNELS products.
• Lunatone Gateway — Control and monitor DALI lighting systems.
• Nintendo Parental Controls — Connects with Nintendo’s parental management service.
• OpenRGB — Support for RGB hardware through the OpenRGB project.

But fear not, as some existing integrations have received some development love with the likes of Switchbot, Habitica, Volvo, Xbox, Telegram, and UniFi. London Underground was previously only available via YAML, but now it’s loaded and ready to go via the Home Assistant integrations GUI, making it easier to see the status of London Underground services without touching code.