Integrations

Introduction

Integrations within Home Assistant are software components that enable Home Assistant to communicate with and control external services, devices, or platforms. They act as the bridge between Home Assistant and your smart home ecosystem, allowing you to seamlessly integrate various technologies under one centralized platform.

Integrations versus add-ons

In Home Assistant, integrations and add-ons serve distinct purposes and operate in different parts of the system. See my add-ons.

Key differences

Feature	Integration	Add-ons
Purpose	connect to external services	extend Home Assistant services
Location	within Home Assistant	side-by-side with Home Assistant
Installation	from UI (devices & services)	from Add-ons menu
Examples	Philips Hue, Spotify, ...	Node-RED, MariaDB, ...

Note

If you're using Home Assistant Core without the Supervisor, only integrations are available; add-ons require the Supervisor for management or you'd have to manage them yourself within Docker containers for instance. See my add-ons information.

Integrations list

I use the default_config: integration, which is a meta component that loads & configures a default set of integrations.

Info

This list does not change frequently; however, it may still be outdated compared to my current installation.

• Brother Printer
  Read data from a local Brother printer.
• Buienradar
  Use Buienradar.nl as a source for meteorological data.
• Denon AVR
  Allows control of Denon network receivers. Also works with some Marantz receivers as well!
• Electricity Maps
  A sensor that queries the Electricity Maps API for the CO2 intensity of a specific region.
• ESPHome
  Integrate ESPHome devices directly to Home Assistant.
• Forecast.Solar
  Solar production forecasting for a solar panel system. Uses historic averages combined with weather forecasts.
• Home Assistant Supervisor
  Monitor & control add-ons and the operating system from Home Assistant.
• Home Connect
  Integrates Home Connect appliances within Home Assistant (Bosch & Siemens)
• HomeKit Bridge
  Makes Home Assistant entities available in Apple HomeKit for control with Apple's Home app or Siri.
• InfluxDB
  Transfer state changes to an external InfluxDB database. Also see add-ons
• Internet Printing Protocol [IPP]
  Allows you to read data from a networked printer that supports the IPP
• Local Calendar
  Create a calender of events for powering automations.
• MeteoAlarm
  Watch weather alerts in Europe (EUMETNET) - MeteoAlarm
• Meteorologisk institutt [met.no]
  Uses the Met.no web service as a source for meteorological data.
• Mobile App
  Allows the Home Assistant mobile app to easily integrate with your Home Assistant installation.
• Moon
  Tracks the phases of the moon.
• Philips Hue
  Control & monitor lights, power plugs and sensors as part of Philips HUE.
• Raspberry Pi Power Supply Checker
  Allows the detection of a bad power supply on the Raspberry Pi.
• RESTful
  The rest sensor consumes a given endpoint. I use it to scrape Vlinder weather station data.
• Samsung Smart TV
  Allows you to control a Samsung Smart TV.
• Season
  Provides current astronomical or meteorological season as a sensor.
• Shelly
  Integrates Shelly devices within Home Assistant.
• Shopping List
  Keep track of shopping list items.
• Sonos
  Control Sonos speakers from Home Assistant.
• Sun
  Track whether the sun is above or below the horizon for your location.
• System Monitor
  Monitor disk usage, memory usage, network usage, CPU usage & running processes.
• Waze Travel Time
  Travel time from Waze, used to display my commute travel time.
• Workday
  Indicates wheher the current day is a workday or not.

HACS

HACS

HACS (Home Assistant Community Store) is a third-party extension for Home Assistant that provides access to custom integrations, themes, and frontend elements developed by the Home Assistant community. It's not officially supported by Home Assistant, use with caution.

• Afvalbeheer
  Provides sensors for various waste collectors in Belgium and the Netherlands via a REST API.
• FontAwesome
  Allows the use of FontAwesome icons within Home Assistant.
• HACS
  The HACS component itself which allows you to install community store integrations.
• Niko Home Control II
  Integration with the Niko Connected Controller (version II) and its connected devices. Also works with the Niko Smart Hub for Niko Home Control for traditionally wired houses.
• Presence Simulation
  Component that provides presence simulation by turning on/off lights, switches, covers, etc. based on your history.