GitHub in Home Assistant
github
part of Home Assistant since 0.88
GitHub is an official Home Assistant integration for Sensor. Works through the manufacturer’s cloud and asks for changes at regular intervals – it depends on the internet connection and the service.
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Connection
- Cloud, polling – Works through the manufacturer’s cloud and asks for changes at regular intervals – it depends on the internet connection and the service.
- Setup
- in the user interface
- Kind
- Online service
- Installations
- 7,464 (1.1 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Sensor
- Provides
- Diagnostics, Sensor
- Maintained by
- @timmo001, @ludeeus
- Python packages
aiogithubapi==26.0.0
Setup
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for GitHub.
- 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
2 open issues and 1 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for GitHub in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.5.0.
Open
- open Reported problem #169388
- open Reported problem #176178
Fixed
- fixed in 2026.5.0 Bug fix #169523
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