Gladys Assistant 4.79: Smarter AI, Enhanced Voice Assistant and More Matter Devices

[pierre-gilles]

Hello everyone,

The v4.79 version of Gladys is out

Artificial Intelligence

This version brings several improvements to the AI agent:

• Scene creation: Schema correction + timeout increase to fix a scene creation bug reported by @GBoulvin and @Jluc.
• Better error handling: clearer feedback when the AI does not respond.
• Tool calls via Telegram: On Telegram, you can now see tool calls as on the web

• New tools:
  • Web Request: the agent can query APIs or web pages. This is a personal need that I implemented, and it’s ultra convenient!
  • Compare Times: time comparison

These new tools allow you to do very powerful things, for example, fetch the opening hours of a business and tell you if the business is currently open! Super convenient in scenes via the « Ask the AI » action.

The possibilities are endless!

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Voice Assistant

• Stop button to interrupt an ongoing response.
• Microphone detection: If no sound has been recorded, Gladys displays an error message.

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Matter

Extended support for new types of devices:

• Vacuum cleaners
• NO₂ sensors (nitrogen dioxide index)
• Fans

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Zigbee2mqtt

• Update to Zigbee2mqtt 2.12.0
• Support for the SONOFF SNZB-01M remote control (4 buttons)

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Node-RED

• Version selector to switch to a major version of Node-RED directly from the Gladys interface.

Convenient for switching to v5 which has just been released!

Be careful, make sure the modules you use are compatible with v5!

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Scenes

• Expanded value field for sensor thresholds
• Back button to navigate more easily in the scene editor.

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Gladys Plus

• When a remote user is deleted on Gladys Plus, the corresponding local user is automatically deleted on your instance.

Full Changelog

Release v4.79.0 · GladysAssistant/Gladys

As always, the update is automatic within 24 hours if you use Watchtower, or you can do it manually by going to « Settings » → « System ».

Happy updating everyone!

[mutmut]

Little test via Telegram and there seems to be an issue, it seems

And the AI creating a scene without me asking, I find that more than questionable

EDIT: in the end, no scene was created

[pierre-gilles]

Thanks for the feedback! I’ll try to reproduce it. Sometimes the AI doesn’t feel the need to call the tools at its disposal. I think the fact that it’s a « pump » isn’t a word that fits in the lexical field of things to turn on/off like a light, that must play a role

[mutmut]

The AI worked perfectly fine in 4.78:

However, tonight before upgrading to 4.79, the AI did some weird things and stopped working, even though at 1:00 PM I was able to start it without any issues and no debug logs:

[mutmut]

Regarding Matter, I do have the updates for NO2 and the fan, thank you!
However, I see ‹ Add to Gladys › even though the services already exist and have the exact same name.

When I click on Add, it updates device 28 with the NO2 (and therefore not a new service) but I can’t do the same for 27, nothing happens.

[mutmut]

There are some weird things with the AI’s answers today or maybe my question wasn’t clear

[pierre-gilles]

I don’t think this is related to 4.79, I also made changes on the Gladys Plus server side!

Before I was using exclusively Gemma 4 as a model, and now I’m using a mix of Gemma 4 for image analysis, and Mistral Small 3.2 for text.

The reason is that Gemma 4 hallucinates quite a bit, more than Mistral, but Mistral is less good at analyzing images.

I think I’ll have to retest with other models to find a more versatile model

I need to create a dataset of examples to run my tests and evaluate the performance of a model in the case of Gladys.

Regarding your feedback on Matter, I don’t have the answer right now I’ll let you know when I’ve had a chance to look into it!