Everything New In Home Assistant 2025.5!

Home Assistant 2025.5 lands today, the may release of 2025 and this month we are talking about very nice improvements to the Backup system, UI improvements, new features to the automation editor, thousands of new voices and a new z-wave network type! 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/2025/05/07/release-20255/ 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 0:15 - Backups 2:19 - Automation/Script editor 4:01 - UI Improvements 4:35 - Network Discovery 5:15 - Z-Wave Improvements 5:51 - New voices 6:22 - Device renaming 6:43 - The little things, new integrations and breaking changes