Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In today’s video, we’re taking a look at 5 of the things I really like in the Home Assistant 2025.8 update! 🚀

This release has a heavy focus on AI! 🤖

The 2025.8 Beta is available now if you want to test it out — and the full stable release drops next week (Wednesday 6th August) .

📚 RESOURCES
🔗 2025.8 Beta Release Notes
rc.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/07/29/release-20258

🔗 2025.8 Full Changelog
rc.home-assistant.io/changelogs/core-2025.8

⌚ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
00:18 - 2025.8
00:57 - Feature #1 (Group Changes)
02:00 - Feature #2 (Weekdays in Timers)
02:33 - Feature #3 (UpTime Kuma Integration)
03:20 - Feature #4 (AI)
05:20 - Feature #5 (Reolink and Media Status)
06:31 - Summary and Outro

📺 RELATED VIDEOS
🔗 2025.7 - 5 New Features
youtu.be/-Imqxl-Hjb0


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