ESPHome in Home Assistant
esphome
part of Home Assistant since 0.85
ESPHome is an official Home Assistant integration for Alarm, DIY and Update. 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 the user interface
- Kind
- Single device
- Quality scale
- Platinum – The highest level: fully typed, efficient and maintained to every rule of the project.
- Installations
- 147,129 (21.5 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Provides
- Alarm control panel, Voice satellite, Binary sensor, Button, Camera, Climate, Cover, Date, Date and time, Diagnostics, Event, Fan, Light, Lock, Media player, Number, Select, Sensor, Switch, Text, Time, Update, Valve, Water heater
- Found automatically via
- Network discovery (Zeroconf), Network discovery (DHCP), MQTT
- Maintained by
- @jesserockz, @kbx81, @bdraco
- Python packages
aioesphomeapi==46.4.1, esphome-dashboard-api==1.4.0, bleak-esphome==4.0.0
Setup
- Home Assistant can find this integration on its own: if it is suggested under Settings → Devices & services, confirm it there.
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for ESPHome.
- Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.
The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.
Matching add-ons
Add-ons that declare a connection to this integration in their own configuration.
Blueprints that use this integration
- Automation NSPanel Configuration
- Automation NSPanel Easy Configuration (v2026.9.15)
- Automation Automatic door unlock
- Automation Send a camera snapshot when doorbell was activated
- Automation Automatic door unlock
- Automation ESPHome Device Update
Known issues and fixes
23 open issues and 40 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for ESPHome in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.9.2.
Open
- open Reported problem #148684
- open Reported problem #139060
- open Reported problem #178087
- open Reported problem #174973
- open Reported problem #161229
- open Reported problem #144228
- open Reported problem #171846
- open Reported problem #169921
Fixed
- fixed in 2026.9.2 Bug fix #181805
- fixed in 2026.9.0 Bug fix #180450
- fixed in 2026.8.0 Bug fix #178047
- fixed in 2026.8.0 Bug fix #178039
- fixed in 2026.7.2 Bug fix #176162
- fixed in 2026.6.2 Bug fix #173164
- fixed in 2026.6.0 Bug fix #172571
- fixed in 2026.4.3 Bug fix #167972
- fixed in 2026.3.0 Bug fix #163097
- fixed in 2025.12.0 Bug fix #157511
- fixed in 2025.11.0 Bug fix #155830
- fixed in 2025.10.0 Bug fix #153311
Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 13, 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 →
Compatible devices
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration
