File in Home Assistant
file
part of Home Assistant since pre 0.7
File is an official Home Assistant integration for Notifications, Sensor and Utility. Talks to the device on your own network and asks for changes at regular intervals.
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Connection
- Local, polling – Talks to the device on your own network and asks for changes at regular intervals.
- Setup
- in the user interface
- Kind
- Integration
- Installations
- 6,709 (0.9 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Notifications, Sensor, Utility
- Provides
- Notifications, Sensor
- Maintained by
- @fabaff
- Python packages
file-read-backwards==2.0.0
Setup
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for File.
- 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.
Known issues and fixes
1 open issues and 1 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for File in the Home Assistant issue tracker.
Open
- open Reported problem #185656
Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of October 29, 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