Everything New In Home Assistant 2025.2!

The second Home Assistant release of the year lands today as we are into Home Assistant 2025.2, and this month adds a huge amount of improvements to the backup system, broadcast capabilities for voice, shared conversations, calendar control and something called Model Context Protocol. If you'd like to support me and future projects: Everything Presence One and other Smart Home devices: https://shop.everythingsmart.io Home Assistant Release Notes (beta): https://rc.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/02/05/release-20252/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingsmarthome Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/EverySmartHome Written Article: https://everythingsmarthome.co.uk EVERYWHERE YOU CAN FIND ME: Shop: https://shop.everythingsmart.io Everything Smart Home Community Discord: https://discord.everythingsmarthome.co.uk Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverySmartHome (@EverySmartHome) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/EverythingSmartHome/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/everythingsmarthomeofficial/ #homeassistant #smarthome ________________________ 0:00 - Intro 0:18 - Backups 6:54 - Broadcast and new intents 7:41 - Assist dials you 8:25 - Calendar Control 9:17 - Model Control Protocol 9:50 - The little things and breaking changes