Home Assistant 2025.7: Huge NEW Features! Ask Question, Area Card Redesign & Integrations

🔥 Home Assistant 2025.7 is here — and this update is PACKED with powerful new features!
From smarter voice control to a redesigned dashboard experience, this is a BIG release you don’t want to miss.

In this video, I walk you through Home Assistant 2025.7, including the brand-new Ask Question action for Assist, the fully redesigned Area card, a cleaner Areas dashboard, and major improvements to integrations and sub-entries.

Here’s what you’ll learn:
🧠 Ask Question for Assist — build dynamic conversations inside your automations
🎵 Smarter voice commands: choose genres, artists, playlists & more
🗂️ Redesigned Area Card — compact & detailed modes, camera support, custom controls
🏠 New Areas Dashboard — clean overview, instant navigation, faster room control
🔗 Integration Sub-Entries — one login, multiple functions (OpenAI, Google AI, MQTT, Telegram & more)
📊 New Integrations Page — clear visual overview of entries, sub-entries, devices & services
⚙️ Plus: new integrations, updated platforms & important backward-incompatible changes

This review is based on the 2025.7 beta, and most features will appear in the final release.

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Links referred to in this video:
* The release notes of 2025.7: https://rc.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/06/25/release-20257/
* The complete change log of Home Assistant 2025.7.: https://rc.home-assistant.io/changelogs/core-2025.7
* Join the Home Assistant release party: https://youtu.be/3MlaIzfRxCg

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00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:50 Assist gets Conversational
00:02:13 New Area Card and Dashboard
00:02:56 Better Areas Dashboard
00:03:29 Integration Sub-Entries
00:04:10 Integration Page Redesign
00:04:42 New Integrations & Changes

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