For the first time, Adaptive Lighting's pull request backlog is empty.
I've finally worked through the pull request backlog: 89 pull requests merged, zero left open, and 60 issues closed along the way. Some contributions had been waiting for years. If yours was one of them, thank you for your patience.
There are still 140 open issues, so there's plenty left to do. And closing an issue doesn't always mean fixing a bug: some were already resolved or superseded, and some requests were better served by a Home Assistant automation. The goal was to fix real problems and keep Adaptive Lighting simple.
Before you update
Home Assistant 2025.9 or newer is now required. We support roughly one year of Home Assistant releases. If you're on an older version, stay on Adaptive Lighting v1.31.0 until you update Home Assistant.
Highlights
- More reliable manual control. Fixes for shared light profiles, auto-reset timers, and brightness/color tracking. Lights resume adapting when the timer expires, and Adaptive Lighting's own updates no longer keep restarting it.
- Better light-group behavior. Missing split-command follow-ups now reach every light, turning a light off cancels its pending command, and area targets respect Home Assistant's exclusions.
- Five ready-to-import blueprints. Synchronize sleep mode, apply a daylight brightness limit, use a Schedule helper, or turn lights off or pause brightness adaptation at the minimum. Browse the examples and import buttons.
- A tidier settings screen and easier troubleshooting. Advanced options are collapsible, settings changes save correctly for older configurations, duplicated entity naming is fixed, and Home Assistant's Download diagnostics action is now available.
- Fixes for unusual lighting schedules and devices. Adaptation keeps working during polar night and midnight sun, inverted brightness ranges work correctly, and quantized brightness/color-temperature readings no longer cause endless redundant commands when command filtering is enabled. Periodic updates are staggered to reduce bursts of traffic.
- A few optional controls. Keep light groups as single targets with
expand_light_groups: false, preserve manual control across sleep changes withreset_manual_control_on_sleep_mode_change: false, or treat turn-ons without a matching Home Assistant context as manual withmanual_control_on_external_turn_on: true.
This release also brings translation fixes, more regression tests, and line and branch coverage reporting. We now run 467 tests across supported Home Assistant versions and its development branch.
Thank you to everyone who contributed code, translations, bug reports, ideas, and reproductions. This release includes years of your work.
From the author: MindRoom
The response to MindRoom in the last release was so enthusiastic that I wanted to share it here again. Thank you for all the kind messages!
MindRoom is my open-source project for AI agents that live in your chat rooms. They remember previous conversations, work together, and connect to tools including Home Assistant. It's built on Matrix, works with cloud or local models, and you can self-host the whole stack. You can also bring the same agents into Slack, Telegram, Discord, and WhatsApp through Matrix bridges.
If that sounds useful, take a look at MindRoom, try it, or leave a star ⭐. I'd love to hear what you build with it.
These lists cover the period since v1.31.0. Of the 62 issues below, 60 were closed during this backlog cleanup and two were closed earlier in the release cycle. Closed issues include fixed, superseded, and declined reports or requests.
Full list: 89 merged pull requests and 62 closed issues
Merged pull requests
Closed issues