diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index ea2ac9e9..c6a1b9b7 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ repos:
 
 
   - repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
-    rev: v0.6.9
+    rev: v0.7.0
     hooks:
       - id: ruff
         name: ruff unused imports
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 43217de9..f6ae32fc 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 # Packages for source formatting
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 pre-commit  == 4.0.1
-ruff        == 0.6.9
+ruff        == 0.7.0
 autotyping == 24.9.0
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Packages for other developement tasks
diff --git a/src/HABApp/config/models/mqtt.py b/src/HABApp/config/models/mqtt.py
index bb4d71cb..2cdbbbbd 100644
--- a/src/HABApp/config/models/mqtt.py
+++ b/src/HABApp/config/models/mqtt.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import logging
 import random
 import string
+from collections.abc import Generator
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Literal
 
@@ -42,18 +43,14 @@ def _migrate_client_id(cls, data):
 
 class Subscribe(BaseModel):
     qos: QOS = Field(default=0, description='Default QoS for subscribing')
-    topics: tuple[tuple[str, QOS | None], ...] = Field(default=('#', ))
-
-    @pydantic.field_validator('topics', mode='before')
-    def parse_topics(cls, v):
-        if not isinstance(v, (list, tuple, set)):
-            raise ValueError('must be a list')
-        ret = []
-        for e in v:
-            if isinstance(e, str):
-                e = (e, None)
-            ret.append(tuple(e))
-        return tuple(ret)
+    topics: tuple[str | tuple[str, QOS], ...] = Field(default=('#', 'topic/with/default/qos', ('topic/with/qos', 1)))
+
+    def get_topic_qos(self) -> Generator[tuple[str, QOS], None, None]:
+        for obj in self.topics:
+            if isinstance(obj, str):
+                yield obj, self.qos
+            else:
+                yield obj
 
 
 class Publish(BaseModel):
diff --git a/src/HABApp/mqtt/connection/subscribe.py b/src/HABApp/mqtt/connection/subscribe.py
index e07db70e..5457411b 100644
--- a/src/HABApp/mqtt/connection/subscribe.py
+++ b/src/HABApp/mqtt/connection/subscribe.py
@@ -105,8 +105,8 @@ async def apply_subscriptions(self) -> None:
         # Unsubscribing has the corresponding handling, so we call that every time
         if not self.plugin_connection.has_errors:
             # subscription from config
-            for topic, qos in CONFIG.mqtt.subscribe.topics:
-                target[topic] = qos if qos is not None else default_qos
+            for topic, qos in CONFIG.mqtt.subscribe.get_topic_qos():
+                target[topic] = qos
             # runtime subscriptions overwrite the subscriptions from the config file
             for topic, qos in self.runtime_subs.items():
                 target[topic] = qos
diff --git a/tests/test_config/test_config.py b/tests/test_config/test_config.py
index a525425e..6a3cfefe 100644
--- a/tests/test_config/test_config.py
+++ b/tests/test_config/test_config.py
@@ -32,8 +32,10 @@ def test_default_file() -> None:
   subscribe:
     qos: 0   # Default QoS for subscribing
     topics:
-    - - '#'
-      - 
+    - '#'
+    - topic/with/default/qos
+    - - topic/with/qos
+      - 1
   publish:
     qos: 0         # Default QoS when publishing values
     retain: false  # Default retain flag when publishing values