Everything New In Home Assistant 2025.8!

Home Assistant’s august release, 2025.8 is landing today, with improved group controls, more responsive voice, generate data with llms and improved time triggers for automations! We take a look at Home Assistants AI suggestions, AI Tasks, LLM voice streaming and more in this release. 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/2025/08/06/release-20258/ 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 - AI Suggestions 2:18 - AI Tasks 3:24 - AI Voice Streaming 4:55 - Group controls 5:26 - Time triggers 5:43 - The little things, new integrations and breaking changes