Gladys Assistant 4.82: Activity log & MQTT integration overhaul 🚀

[pierre-gilles]

Hello everyone,

Today, I’m releasing what is, so far, one of the biggest updates of the year, and there’s a good reason for that.

We’re clearly at a turning point in how we develop: AI models are becoming more powerful, and the tools to use them daily are finally maturing. Over the past two weeks, two of them have changed how I work on Gladys.

Claude Fable 5, the flagship model from Anthropic, the one that was temporarily restricted in the U.S. because its capabilities worried the authorities. It allowed me to tackle very technical subjects that would have taken me entire days and develop major features like the activity log that I detail below.

Cursor’s cloud AI agents, controllable from mobile. About ten days ago, Cursor launched its iOS app: you can now delegate a development task to an agent from your phone and let it work autonomously, without a computer.

I tried it on a whim… and it immediately fit my lifestyle. At the gym, on public transport, on the TGV, during the dull moments of the day: I start tasks, and they progress while I do something else.

The concrete result? The complete overhaul of the MQTT integration, done entirely by a Cursor agent while I was traveling.

I don’t see any going back. Before, it was mainly my personal time that limited the ambition of developments. Today, I delegate complex subjects to agents that run autonomously, iterate until the result is up to par, and even continue without my computer at hand.

And this is just the beginning: I can already launch a hundred in parallel, each on a different feature. It’s a bit like managing a team of 100 developers.

My intuition: the next six months could be worth several years of classic development.

I’ll show you a demo of Cursor iOS on YouTube here.

Here’s what came out of it in just a few days:

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New Activity Page: Live History of Your Home

The flagship feature of this release: a new Activity tab that displays a visual timeline of everything happening in your home: door openings, motion detections, lights on/off, sensor values, etc.

What makes this page useful daily:

• Timeline grouped by day (« Today », « Yesterday », then full dates) with icons colored by event family

• Burst grouping: consecutive states of the same sensor are merged into a single line with a ×N badge, expandable to see each timestamped occurrence. Essential for installations with 100–200 devices

• Filters by family (Openings, Motion & presence, Buttons, Lights, Climate, Security, Energy…), room selector, and device search

• Real-time with a floating « N new events » badge when you’ve scrolled down

• Infinite scroll with pagination

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MQTT: Complete Overhaul of the Virtual Device Experience

The MQTT integration benefits from a major UX overhaul, inspired by community feedback (forum):

• Compact list of devices grouped by room
• Feature catalog with realistic dashboard preview and search
• Auto-generation of external IDs (mqtt:{slug}-{4chars}), always editable
• Copy button for MQTT identifiers/URLs

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AI: Model Choice and Improved Context

I continue to push the AI agent in Gladys because I’m convinced it’s the future of home automation: controlling your home by voice or in writing, executing any action, querying your sensors.

The goal is a reliable agent on a daily basis. To get there, I need you.

This release adds an AI model selector in the chat. You can test the different Scaleway models (Mistral, Llama, Qwen, Gemma…) and compare their responses in real situations at home. A cost indicator (€, €€, €€€) helps you navigate, but it remains indicative for now: Gladys Assistant has joined Scaleway’s Startup program and we received €1,000 in credits to carry out these experiments serenely.

Once the best model is identified, I’ll do the math to integrate it sustainably into Gladys Plus, in a profitable way for the project.

In the meantime, test and share your feedback on the forum!

Other AI improvements:

• Enriched context: irrelevant tool calls and messages are excluded from the context for better responses
• Correction of the action schema « turn on/off a device »
• Enhanced debug file (last 50 messages)

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Tuya: Support for Smart Meters

• Support for Tuya smart meters in the cloud and locally
• Reading via the Thing Model shadow API for devices without legacy specifications
• Measurements: total power, active/reactive energy, voltage, current
• Clean display names (Tuya codes’ typos no longer appear in the UI)
• Test infrastructure by fixtures to industrialize the addition of new Tuya devices

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Interface & Dashboard

Gauge Widget

Improvements following feedback from @GBoulvin on this topic.

• Customizable name to distinguish multiple gauges from the same device (e.g., two MQTT water tanks)
• Correction of the scroll locked on mobile when you place your finger on a gauge

General Mobile Improvements

Thanks to @Will_71 for his work here.

• Responsive layout of action buttons and headers on many pages (integrations, settings…)
• Stacked buttons on mobile, better wrapping of button groups

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Integrations & Fixes

Integration	Change
Z-Wave JS	Integration fix after ZWaveJS update
Matter	Update from matter.js 0.17.3 → 0.17.4 + integration README
Air Conditioning	Fix: air conditioning mode was displayed as fan mode since v4.79.0
iOS	Dark mode is no longer overridden when launching the app
Signal quality	Signal quality SVG icons are visible again in development
Scenes	Fix: messages containing special characters no longer cause display bugs

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Technical (for contributors)

• Migration of the front from preact-cli (webpack) to Vite: faster dev startup, improved HMR, modernized build. No visible change for the end user, but a healthier technical base for the future. Migration performed by Fable 5, autonomously.

• New supported_options field on DeviceFeature: integrations can now declare the modes/values supported by a feature (e.g., vacuum cleaner modes)

• Enhanced developer documentation (AGENTS.md)

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Thanks

Thanks to @Terdious, @Will_71, @Sescandell, and @bertrandda for their contributions, as well as the community for feedback on MQTT, the activity log, and mobile UX.

A word for Gladys Plus subscribers: it’s thanks to you that I can pay for the AI tools that make all this possible, and their cost keeps increasing. With the acceleration of the development pace, I’ll probably need to increase the AI budget for the project in the coming months. If you want to see Gladys progress even faster, Gladys Plus is the best lever. In addition to supporting the project, you unlock advanced features: backups, AI agent, remote access, voice assistants, MCP, Enedis integration, and many more. Thank you all, and happy update! The full changelog is here

[prohand]

A big thank you to everyone for this new version full of new features and which promises great things for the future .

So far I’ve only noticed a display issue here:

And if I reduce the window size, I can’t see all the selectors:

Thanks

[pierre-gilles]

Hi @prohand, the list is horizontally scrollable so it’s normal behavior

The scrollbars are hidden because it’s not very aesthetically pleasing ^^

[prohand]

Hi,

Oh, thanks, it’s okay on mobile but on PC, I can’t scroll

[Terdious]

Not great in practice, but for a quick fix, if you aim to select the text (click all the way to the left, hold and move to the right, it should scroll )

[Chris75]

Great job indeed, thanks. @all contributors.

I’m very happy to have chosen gladys to get started, because I realize that it’s evolving very quickly and that reassures me.

I’m actually looking forward to being able to contribute to its evolution and I’m learning how all this is architected, but it’s not so simple for a beginner like me.

Otherwise, I have the same issue with the activity menu buttons that don’t appear in full and I can’t scroll on computer (but it’s okay on mobile)

Another thing: why did gladys update itself without me asking?

[pierre-gilles]

@Chris75

I’m very happy to have chosen Gladys to get started, because I realize that it’s evolving very quickly and that reassures me.

Thanks!! Yes, it’s moving fast on Gladys!

@Chris75

Otherwise, I have the same issue with the activity menu buttons that don’t appear in full and I can’t scroll on a computer

Okay, interesting, I can scroll horizontally, but I’m on a Mac and with a touchpad, I don’t know how it works on Windows in general?

@Chris75

another thing: why did Gladys update itself without me asking?

Gladys updates automatically, there’s a check every 24 hours or so

[Will_71]

@pierre-gilles

I don’t know how it works on Windows in general

Actually, it’s not simple if you don’t have a touchpad like on a laptop. Otherwise, you have to do as @Terdious indicated by holding down and using the keyboard arrows.

[Will_71]

@pierre-gilles

Migration from preact-cli (webpack) to Vite: faster dev startup,

I confirm it’s faster, I hadn’t tested it yet but yes I was surprised when I ran the front-end build

[GBoulvin]

Excellent all of this! What a pleasure to see so many improvements in such a short time!

Thank you!

Just a quick feedback on the presentation. There is a strange spacing that appears on the MQTT devices page:

Android, Chrome, local and GladysPlus

[Chris75]

yes, it works with the right and left arrows on Windows PC, thanks!

[Chris75]

oh ok, and do I need to restart the server?

[Will_71]

No, there’s no need.
When you want to update a Docker container, you first need to stop it, then delete it, download the new image, and recreate the container. So technically, it has already restarted because it’s a new container!
Here, Watchtower does the job to manage this automatically!

[Chris75]

ok, that’s why gladys crashed for a few moments yesterday, as it was being updated

[Will_71]

During the update, you no longer have access, so this seems normal to me.