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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Pivotonian on 2025-04-03 03:03:03+00:00.
Just a heads up for anyone who updated to Home Assistant 2025.4 and missed this (like I initially did): If you use OpenAI (or I believe Gemini) as your LLM, Assist can now search the web – but it’s not turned on by default. You’ll need to go into the integration settings and enable it manually.
Once it’s on, Assist can actually answer questions with up-to-date info from the web – not just whatever it can dig out of your sensors or scripts (or dated info that ChatGPT had access to). I tried a few current events (NBA games, news stories and questions about recent world events) and it worked surprisingly well (albeit not all 100% accurate which is to be expected with LLMs).
Together with continued conversations in this release, this is one step closer to Assist (and VPEs) becoming a real voice assistant contender – and honestly it makes me even more ready to ditch Siri. No more “I found this on the web – I’ve sent it to your iPhone” garbage.