Emulated Hue in Home Assistant
emulated_hue
part of Home Assistant since 0.27
Emulated Hue is an official Home Assistant integration for Hub. Talks to the device on your own network and is told about every change straight away.
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Connection
- Local, push – Talks to the device on your own network and is told about every change straight away.
- Setup
- in configuration.yaml
- Kind
- Integration
- Quality scale
- Internal – Part of Home Assistant itself, not rated separately.
- Installations
- 5,342 (0.8 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Hub
- Maintained by
- @bdraco, @Tho85
Setup
- This integration is set up in configuration.yaml, not in the user interface.
- The documentation lists the exact entries; restart Home Assistant after adding them.
Known issues and fixes
2 open issues and 1 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for Emulated Hue in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.5.3.
Open
- open Reported problem #178308
- open Reported problem #182122
Fixed
- fixed in 2026.5.3 Bug fix #171000
Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 16, 2026. The sentences are written by a language model from the titles of the issues; the reports themselves are on GitHub.
Check a specific device for known problems in the product check →
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration