Soon available in Home Assistant, planned or just a workaround
Thanks to the active community, Home Assistant is constantly being developed and improved, but Home Assistant is still not (quite) perfect. On this page I collect missing functions, features or small things that have potential for improvement, as well as changes worth mentioning inside and outside the official release notes.
Pipeline: Proposed changes
The following notable pull requests for the Home Assistant interface have not yet made it into the next release:
Energy dashboard, planned: previous year comparison
One of the next releases is expected to bring the option of comparing the current month in the energy dashboard with the month of the previous year. ... continue reading
Automation editor sidebar
One of the next releases of Home Assistant is expected to introduce a new sidebar for the properties of the individual triggers or actions in the automations ... continue reading
Home Assistant 2025.8: Sankey chart for the energy dashboard
- Added quietly and secretly as a separate card at the beginning of 2025, the Sankey Chart Card became a fixed component of the Energy Dashboard with the 2025.8 release: see also: Energy Dashboard: Cards for other dashboards too?
Home Assistant 2025.2 - Construction site charts
- Change the range of the statistics charts via date selection: Statistics chart: Date / time selection
- Another change suggestion that I submitted to Home Assistant has now been implemented. In the "More info" view of text sensors, not only the history but also the logbook is now displayed. This change has been part of Home Assistant since the 2025.2 release. Commit: https://github.com/home-assistant/frontend/pull/22997
Home Assistant 2025.1
- Back and forward buttons for the history also for mobile devices
- Sankey-Chart-Card
Home Assistant 2024.12
- Back and next buttons for history and logbook
- After essential details were missing in the HA automation traces, I created my first feature request on Github in April 2024. Due to a lack of response, I set up an HA development environment in September and adapted the source code myself. The September pull request was then moved to the DEV version in mid-November, see HA Automation: Step details (Traces)
Current development areas
Display / output Home Assistant data as a table - Reporting
Charts are great, but a simple table view of historical data would be desirable for certain evaluations. Unfortunately, Home Assistant has very little to offer out of the box. Only certain cards can access the history data, but then without any possibility to edit, filter or customize the data. ... continue reading
Home Assistant: Logbook search or filtering?
Home Assistant offers comprehensive functions for monitoring and logging status changes. The integrated Dashboard: Logbook provides detailed information on all changes, but can only be filtered to specific entities and a specific time period, but not whether a specific value is included: ... continue reading
Home Assistant; Charts: Scroll- Zoom; Development status
Something is happening: the long-neglected history in Home Assistant is getting numerous improvements. With the 2025.1 release, the charts are getting a rudimentary zoom function, among other things. Rudimentary, because currently only one chart can be zoomed if there are several charts. And it is not yet possible to scroll to an older section. With the 2025.2 release, the chart library was migrated from chart.js to Apache Echart, as the chart library Chart.js originally used was increasingly re... ... continue reading
Role access control in Home Assistant: Why it's important.
The lack of role-based access control (RBAC) in Home Assistant is repeatedly criticized: The top topic in the 2024 Month of "What the heck?". Role-based access control could be used to restrict access to certain devices or location data for certain family members or guests. RBAC could not only make Home Assistant more secure, but also accessible for larger installations. ... continue reading